<scp>G</scp> ilbert, <scp>H</scp> umphrey
Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1537–83) was an Elizabethan explorer, mariner, and soldier. He is known chiefly as an advocate for attempts to seek a north‐west passage to the Pacific in the 1560s, for his successful but ruthless military service in Ireland in the 1570s, and for his attempts to explore and co...
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Wiley
2017
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118297353.wbeerlg003 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2F9781118297353.wbeerlg003 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781118297353.wbeerlg003 |
| Summary: | Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1537–83) was an Elizabethan explorer, mariner, and soldier. He is known chiefly as an advocate for attempts to seek a north‐west passage to the Pacific in the 1560s, for his successful but ruthless military service in Ireland in the 1570s, and for his attempts to explore and colonize North America after he was granted letters patent by Elizabeth I in 1578 authorizing the planting of an English colony in the New World. |
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