Sir Richard Grenville of the Revenge

A.L. Rowse

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571300433
• Year: 2013

Sir Richard Grenville (1542-1591), English sea captain and explorer, became a legendary figure in the resistance to the Spanish Armada, dying as a result of wounds sustained at the helm of the galleon Revenge in the Battle of Flores: a fight in which he struggled against overwhelming odds.

First published in 1937, Sir Richard Grenville of the Revenge was A.L. Rowse's first full-length historical monograph.

'There is no doubt that Mr Rowse's book will establish itself as the standard biography of Grenville, and he deserves our unstinting thanks for the patient research that he has put into it.' J.E. Neale, Sunday Times

'Magnificent... I was delighted, too, by the masterful descriptions of the Elizabethan era and the brilliant figures of that age.' Lloyd George, in a letter to A.L. Rowse

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• CHAPTER I: THE GRENVILLES AND THEIR COUNTRY
• CHAPTER II: THE MARSHAL OF CALAIS: FROM GRANDFATHER TO GRANDSON
• CHAPTER III: EARLY ADVENTURES: HUNGARY AND IRELAND
• CHAPTER IV: THE WESTERN SEA-BOARD
• CHAPTER V: THE GREAT SOUTH-SEA PROJECT: GRENVILLE AND DRAKE
• CHAPTER VI: WEST COUNTRY OCCUPATIONS: BIDEFORD, THE CASTLE OF COMFORT, BUCKLAND
• CHAPTER VII: GRENVILLE AS SHERIFF: THE ATTACK ON THE CATHOLICS
• CHAPTER VIII: CORNISH PIRACY AND LAW-BREAKING
• CHAPTER IX: THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
• CHAPTER X: RALEGH AND VIRGINIA
• CHAPTER XI: THE FIRST VIRGINIA VOYAGE
• CHAPTER XII: THE FIRST ENGLISH COLONY IN AMERICA: VIRGINIA 1585–6
• CHAPTER XIII: LATER VIRGINIA VOYAGES
• CHAPTER XIV: THE ARMADA AND THE DEFENCE OF THE WEST
• CHAPTER XV: GRENVILLE IN IRELAND 1588–90: THE PLANTATION OF MUNSTER
• CHAPTER XVI: IN THE AZORES
• CHAPTER XVII: THE LAST FIGHT OF THE REVENGE
• CHAPTER XVIII: CHARACTER AND MYTH
• CHAPTER XIX: POSTERITY: EPILOGUE
• INDEX
• Copyright