Humphrey Gilbert
1539?-1583
British navigator and explorer who played a significant role in early British colonization, setting up the first British colony in North America in 1583 at St. John'...
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The seventeenth-century historian William Camden described Sir Humphrey Gilbert as "vir acer et alacer, belli pacisque artibus claris" (a zealous and eager man, famous in the arts of war and peace). G...
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Sir Humphrey Gilbert (ca. 1537-1583), English soldier and colonizer, failed in his attempt to settle Newfoundland. Nevertheless he took the first step toward building a British colonial empire in Amer...
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Humphrey Gilbert
Humphrey Gilbert
Humphrey Gilbert, Sir