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First English Settlement - English
URL: http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/ncsites/english1.htm#Gilbert

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Gilbert and Raleigh.

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Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland - English
URL: http://www.munarchaeology.com/munarchaeology/stories/newfoundland/intro.htm

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by Edward Hayes. Etext prepared by Dagny, dagnyj@hotmail.com and John Bickers, jbickers@ihug.co.nz

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AN Mémoire Vivante - sir Humphrey Gilbert - French
URL: http://www.archives.ca/05/0509/050951/05095103_f.html

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Ce document est l'un des plus anciens manuscrits en langue anglaise conservés par les Archives nationales. Remarquez l'écriture, typique pour l'époque en question, mais difficile à lire de nos jours.

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Modern History Sourcebook: Edward Haies: Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage To Newfoundland, 1583 - English
URL: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1585haies-gilbert.html

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Gilbert, Sir Humphrey. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 - English
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/65/gi/GilbertH.html

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Convinced of the existence of a Northwest Passage, he explained his theories in his famous Discourse (ed., with some additions, by George Gascoigne in 1576), which inspired the voyages of Martin Frobisher and John Davis and for many years motivated English exploration in the northern regions. In 1578, Gilbert was granted a patent by Queen Elizabeth I to found colonies in America and other lands.

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Gilbert, Sir Humphrey -- Encyclopædia Britannica Online Article - English
URL: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=37536

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English soldier and navigator who devised daring and farseeing projects of overseas colonization. Although he was brilliant and creative, his poor leadership was responsible for his failure to establish the first permanent English colony in North America.

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Sir Humphrey Gilbert - English
URL: http://www.nps.gov/fora/gilbert.htm

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Educated at Eton and at Oxford, Humphrey Gilbert also spent time in the household of Princess Elizabeth, who later became Queen Elizabeth. In 1562-63, he served under the Earl of Warwick at Le Havre and was wounded during the siege. Early interested in exploration, in 1566 he prepared A Discourcs of a Discoveries for a new Passage to Cataia [China] in which he urged the queen to seek a Northwest Passage to China because the known routes were controlled by the Spanish and the Portuguese.

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European Explorers: Sir Humphrey Gilbert - English
URL: http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/exgilbert.htm

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Who Was Gilbert?

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Gilbert, Sir Humphrey - English
URL: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0820808.html

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1537?–1583, English soldier, navigator, and explorer; half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh. Knighted (1570) for his service in the campaigns in Ireland, he later (1572) served in the Netherlands. Convinced of the existence of a Northwest Passage, he explained his theories in his famous Discourse (ed., with some additions, by George Gascoigne in 1576), which inspired the voyages of Martin Frobisher and John Davis and for many years motivated English exploration in the northern regions.

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Gilbert, Sir Humphrey (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia - English
URL: http://www.1upinfo.com/encyclopedia/G/GilbertH.html

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1537?–1583, English soldier, navigator, and explorer; half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh. Knighted (1570) for his service in the campaigns in Ireland, he later (1572) served in the Netherlands. Convinced of the existence of a Northwest Passage, he explained his theories in his famous Discourse (ed., with some additions, by George Gascoigne in 1576), which inspired the voyages of Martin Frobisher and John Davis and for many years motivated English exploration in the northern regions.

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