Sir Walter Ralegh: A BiographyAt the Clarendon Press, 1891 - 413 pages |
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Page 17
... Spaniards and Italians were put to the sword . All the Irishmen and several Irish women were hanged . An Englishman and an Irish priest , who suffered the same doom , had their legs and arms first broken . Only the foreign officers were ...
... Spaniards and Italians were put to the sword . All the Irishmen and several Irish women were hanged . An Englishman and an Irish priest , who suffered the same doom , had their legs and arms first broken . Only the foreign officers were ...
Page 43
... Spaniards , but as assassins . There the experiment at colonization ended . Neither Spain nor France had repeated the attempt . The whole land was vacant of white men . Ralegh's fancy was inspired with visions , destined to be more than ...
... Spaniards , but as assassins . There the experiment at colonization ended . Neither Spain nor France had repeated the attempt . The whole land was vacant of white men . Ralegh's fancy was inspired with visions , destined to be more than ...
Page 49
... Spaniards first brought potatoes into Potatoes and Europe . Hariot and Lane first discovered them in North Carolina . He grew them at Youghal , and they became his . Hariot discoursed learnedly on the virtues of tobacco , and Drake ...
... Spaniards first brought potatoes into Potatoes and Europe . Hariot and Lane first discovered them in North Carolina . He grew them at Youghal , and they became his . Hariot discoursed learnedly on the virtues of tobacco , and Drake ...
Page 50
... Spaniards , at the Newfoundland fisheries . He sent forth in June , 1586 , his ships Serpent and Mary Spark , under Captains Jacob Whiddon and John Evesham , to fight the Spaniards at the Azores . In a battle of thirty - two hours ...
... Spaniards , at the Newfoundland fisheries . He sent forth in June , 1586 , his ships Serpent and Mary Spark , under Captains Jacob Whiddon and John Evesham , to fight the Spaniards at the Azores . In a battle of thirty - two hours ...
Page 62
... Spaniards , chiefly by deputy , risking his own person as little as ' the noble warrior ' of his reputed epigram , ' that never blunted sword . ' The hardships and dangers he had sturdily braved in France and Ireland were for his ...
... Spaniards , chiefly by deputy , risking his own person as little as ' the noble warrior ' of his reputed epigram , ' that never blunted sword . ' The hardships and dangers he had sturdily braved in France and Ireland were for his ...
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