GRENVILLE, SIR RICHARD
\ɡɹˈɛnvɪl], \ɡɹˈɛnvɪl], \ɡ_ɹ_ˈɛ_n_v_ɪ_l]\
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(1540-1591), an English navigator, set out with seven vessels and 108 colonists for Carolina on a colonizing expedition for Sir Walter Raleigh in 1585. He landed the colonists at Roanoke Island, but they soon afterward returned to England on account of troubles with the Indians. In 1586 he renewed the attempt. In 1591, with only one ship, he attacked a Spanish fleet of fifty vessels and sunk four of them, but was mortally wounded.
By John Franklin Jameson
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