
E118. Humphrey Gilbert in Newfoundland
05/15/25 • 12 min
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Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1539–83) was an Elizabethan adventurer, explorer, member of parliament and soldier who served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and was a pioneer of the English colonial empire in North America. He was a maternal half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh and a cousin of Sir Richard Grenville. His dramatic death at sea in 1583 is immortalized by American Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Enjoy this ENCORE Presentation!
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LibriVox: A Book of American Explorers by T.W. Higginson, read by D. Desalvo; Sir Humphrey Gilbert, an 1850 poem by American Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from The Seaside and the Fireside, in the “By the Seaside” section of the volume.
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Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1539–83) was an Elizabethan adventurer, explorer, member of parliament and soldier who served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and was a pioneer of the English colonial empire in North America. He was a maternal half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh and a cousin of Sir Richard Grenville. His dramatic death at sea in 1583 is immortalized by American Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Enjoy this ENCORE Presentation!
Check out the YouTube version of this episode at https://youtu.be/plC46WFVTE4 which has accompanying visuals including maps, charts, timelines, photos, illustrations, and diagrams.
- Humphrey Gilbert book at https://amzn.to/3ZlmlfQ
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow books at https://amzn.to/4jQstoJ
- England History books available at https://amzn.to/4526W5n
- Age of Discovery books available at https://amzn.to/3ZYOhnK
- Age of Exploration books available at https://amzn.to/403Wcjx
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LibriVox: A Book of American Explorers by T.W. Higginson, read by D. Desalvo; Sir Humphrey Gilbert, an 1850 poem by American Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from The Seaside and the Fireside, in the “By the Seaside” section of the volume.
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404. Captain Phips and the Spanish Galleon
Sir William Phips (1651-95) was born in Maine, then part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Despite being of humble origin, uneducated, and fatherless from a young age, he rapidly advanced from shepherd boy to shipwright, ship's captain, treasure hunter, the first New England native to be knighted, and the first royally appointed governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Captain Phipps was famous in his lifetime for recovering a large treasure from a sunken Spanish galleon in 1686.
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405. Sunken Silver Ship
New Englander Sir William Phips (1651-95) was famous in his lifetime for recovering a large treasure from a sunken Spanish galleon in 1686.
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Audio Credit: LibriVox Historical Tales, Volume I, American I by C. Morris, read by Kalynda.
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