Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Raleigh's El Dorado expedition, also known as Raleigh's first voyage to Guiana, was an English military and exploratory expedition led by Sir Walter Raleigh that took place during the Anglo-Spanish War in 1595. [1] The expedition set out in February 1595 to explore the Orinoco River on the northeast tip of South America in an attempt to find ...
The Discovery of Guiana. Title page of a Latin edition of the Discovery, Brevis & admiranda descriptio regni Guianae, avri abundantissimi, in America, 1599. Note the illustration of headless people. The Discovery of Guiana is a book by Sir Walter Raleigh, who wrote this account one year after his 1595 journey to Guiana, the Venezuelan region of ...
Lawrence Kemys. Lawrence Kemys or Keymis ( c. 1562 [citation needed] –1618) was an English seaman and companion of Sir Walter Raleigh in his expeditions to Guiana in 1595 and 1617–18. [1]
Sir Walter Raleigh [a] (/ ˈ r ɔː l i, ˈ r æ l i, ˈ r ɑː l i /; c. 1553 – 29 October 1618) was an English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer. One of the most notable figures of the Elizabethan era, he played a leading part in English colonisation of North America, suppressed rebellion in Ireland, helped defend England against the Spanish Armada and held political positions under ...
Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. Marvin Charles Creamer (January 24, 1916 – August 12, 2020) was an American college professor and sailor, notable for being the first recorded person to have sailed around the globe without the aid of navigational instruments. Between December, 21, 1982, and May 17, 1984, Creamer and the crew of his 36-foot boat ...
USS Raleigh (LPD-1), the lead ship of her class of amphibious transport docks, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy named for the capital of North Carolina, which in turn honors the English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh, the first to attempt the establishment of an English settlement in the United States of America.
Philip Amadas (1550–1618) [ 1] was a naval commander and explorer in Elizabethan England. [ 2] Little is known from his early life, but he grew up within a wealthy merchant family in southwestern England. [ 3] Amadas was instrumental in the early years of the English colonisation of North America. He served alongside Arthur Barlowe in the ...
Occupation. explorer. Signature. Sir Ralph Lane (c. 1532 – October 1603) [1][2] was an English explorer of the Elizabethan era. He helped colonise the Kingdom of Ireland in 1583 and was sheriff of County Kerry, Ireland, from 1583 to 1585. [3] He was part of the unsuccessful attempt in 1585 to colonise Roanoke Island, North Carolina.