During 1587 John White and his colony left England to set up camp, and to explore on Roanoke island. White had to leave after getting to the island, and when he came back his colony wasn't there. There are many different theories on how it happened, but this is how i imagined it.…
loss of men and ammunition (Geoffrey Parker, Why the Armada Failed). When the fleet finally returned to Lisbon it brought the treasure ships back intact but it was clear that the Armada was no longer ready to mount the full scale invasion of England. Drake had given England another year to prepare for the Spanish Armada.…
John Cabot: Explorer sent by Henry VII in 1497 who explored and claimed Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and the Grand Banks for England. Cabot was originally sent by Henry in violation of the treaty of Tordesillas to find a direct route to Asia. Cabot, like Columbus thought he had reached Asia, unaware he was…
Under the command of Sir Richard Grenville, the fleet encountered a storm in the Atlantic, damaging ships and destroying one, forcing a stop in Puerto Rico for repairs. The delayed and hobbled vessels arrived at Roanoke Island on June 26th.…
He led them through the tropical riverbed to an outpost of the fort which was about 60 miles up the river but the actual fort was 100 miles up the river. He personally led the attack on the outpost and the defenders were surprised and they were easily taken over. However at this time he was ordered to go back to the ship and could not assist in taking the fort. Even then he fell ill and couldn’t take command of the ship and was sent to Jamaica where he was taken care of but was eventually taken home. After he regained his strength his next assignment was to command an important convoy of ships on route to the Baltics. When he returned he asked to go back to the West Indies and although they granted his request by the time he returned Great Britain had made peace with America and Spain. After the war during the time of peace it was difficult for him to get a ship Horatio had gotten married and for five years he lived…
When Canute was young he was left in charge of the fleet at Gainsborough after an invasion of England in 1013. He gave Englishmen estates to his Danish followers as a reward for having Englishmen killed and outlawed. In 1018 Canute paid off most of his fleet after the English reached an agreement at Oxford.…
You will compare an absolute monarch with a constitutional monarch. Select one monarch from each l…
In 1548 arguably one of the best captains in England's history was born. Sir Francis Drake was born to a wealthy family on the Crowndale estate of Lord Francis Russell. What started Drake’s obsession and controversial career for battle and for the sea began when he enlisted as an 18 year old eager young man ready for exploration, battle, and riches. Drake’s life really began when a peasant Roman Catholic priest accused him of Robbery and theft. These allegations led Drake to flee his native country, Which led Drake to lead the Hawkins African Trade ships. By 1568 Drake had command of his own ship and fleets for the slave trade to the spanish colonies of the Caribbean.…
The British practice of operating naval ships with “busy” men, who were convincingly placed into service, was very common. Under the British rule, during war the navy had the right to pick up people through the Streets of Great Britain, arresting men and playing them in their Royal Navy. Americans believed that this time that the act of impressment was as a deliberate and dastardly, committed against innocent men. Impressment fueled barbarity, infuriating Congress into governmental action and rising ambassadorial pressures with Britain. The American’s responded equally to impressment against the British and seized gullible seamen to serve aboard the American fighting…
captain of a fleet granted by spain in the year of 1519. Magellan took his fleet on…
a boogrphey.com it said in the year 1588, the British Royal Navy inflicted a decisive and devastating defeat upon the spanish Armada.John Winthrop died at age 61, in the splint of…
Troops sailed for Cuba and attacked Ft. Santiago in the Battle of San Juan Hill. TR led his calvary unit (Rough Riders) and won the battle.…
In the late 1600s, Queen Elizabeth I commissioned to establish a permanent settlement in North America, and was so this colony was founded by Sir Walter Raleigh. Their food supply soon became desperate, so they sent their Governor White to England to ask for help. However, due to England’s war with Spain, White was unable to return for multiple years. When he was finally able to return to the…
The resentment of the British began witht emilitary blunders of General Braddock. In 1755, General Braddock with 2,000 men largely composed of colonials called "bucksins" headed off the capture Fort Duquesne. The colonials undisciplined manners and their Indian-like methods of…
The first Roanoke colonists was having a hard time with barely any food supplies and clean water and had the indians attacking and in 1586 they returned to England aboard a ship captained by Sir Francis Drake. In 1587, Raleigh had sent somewherearound 100 colonists under John White. John White had returned to England to get more supplies, but because of the war with Spain he could not go the roanoke at the time. By the time he finally returned in August 1590, everyone had vanished.…
