Amyas Preston (died 1609) was an English privateer of the Elizabethan period. His career was largely spent in the Caribbean, as were other more famous...
5 KB (568 words) - 12:30, 23 April 2024
George Somers (section Preston Somers Expedition)
Somers, Amyas Preston and the Burning of Caracas". The Bermudian. Archived from the original on 13 May 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2016. "Preston, Amyas (DNB00)" ...
9 KB (1,136 words) - 14:30, 3 April 2024
Anglo-Spanish War. The English expedition headed by George Somers and Amyas Preston sailed to the Spanish Main initially intending to support Sir Walter...
26 KB (3,235 words) - 19:31, 19 January 2024
Sir George Somers. In 1595 co-led with Amyas Preston the raid on Caracas and Coro...
163 KB (4,063 words) - 10:58, 23 April 2024
Supporting Raleigh with his expedition was another led by Amyas Preston and George Somers known as the Preston Somers expedition to South America, notable for a...
69 KB (8,191 words) - 00:50, 1 May 2024
settlements, but in 1595 the Preston–Somers expedition landed and around 200 English Privateers, including George Somers and Amyas Preston, crossed the mountains...
87 KB (7,867 words) - 07:19, 20 May 2024
built. 1595 – Town captured by English troops led by George Somers and Amyas Preston 1638 – Roman Catholic Diocese of Caracas founded. 1641 – 11 June: Earthquake...
24 KB (1,907 words) - 23:19, 23 February 2024
George Popham, had left earlier and the second, led by George Somers and Amyas Preston, left a month later. Raleigh left Plymouth on 6 February 1595, and sailed...
30 KB (3,939 words) - 17:41, 5 April 2024
printed catalog of an institutional library. May 29 – George Somers and Amyas Preston travel to aid Raleigh's El Dorado expedition but failing to meet him...
22 KB (2,682 words) - 23:06, 25 February 2024
printed catalog of an institutional library. May 29 – George Somers and Amyas Preston travel to aid Raleigh's El Dorado expedition but failing to meet him...
327 bytes (24,154 words) - 02:01, 17 November 2023
settlement of Trinidad and the sack of Caracas by George Somers and Amyas Preston was enraged. He held the notion that any attack must be answered by...
16 KB (1,847 words) - 02:03, 11 January 2024
Elizabethan war (Four Courts Press Ltd, 2000) ISBN 978-1-85182-551-6 Sir Amyas Preston to the Earl of Nottingham, 9 December 1601 The Naval Tracts of Sir William...
36 KB (4,669 words) - 22:41, 14 November 2023
1589: Thomas Bedwell 15 November 1595: John Lee 22 December 1603: Sir Amyas Preston 16 July 1609: Sir Roger Ayscough 1 June 1612: Samuel Hales and John...
4 KB (327 words) - 12:25, 13 November 2023
Rachael Stirling (as Caroline Crale) Aidan Gillen (as Amyas Crale) Aimee Mullins (as Lucy Crale) Toby Stephens (as Philip Blake) Marc Warren (as Meredith...
87 KB (652 words) - 07:05, 20 April 2024
Candidate Votes % ±% Unionist Rennell Rodd 26,247 61.4 -12.1 Labour David Amyas Ross 10,960 25.7 -0.8 Liberal Cyril Moses Picciotto 5,520 12.9 n/a Majority...
374 KB (158 words) - 23:48, 17 February 2024
1773 John Busby 1719-04-09 fl 1719 Stephen John Williams Busby 2005-05-26 Amyas Bushe 1758-06-15 fl 1758 George Busk 1850-06-06 12 August 1807 – 10 August...
160 KB (114 words) - 13:07, 2 April 2024
with the current replica. Historical research was provided by E. Hayter Preston. Beatrice Dawson designed the many period costumes worn in the show. Ian...
30 KB (555 words) - 11:27, 29 March 2024
by 1972, where Betjeman visits High and Over (1929), a house designed by Amyas Connell in the moderne style ("perhaps old-fashioned today") that overlooked...
15 KB (1,892 words) - 20:41, 7 May 2024
their literature came into commonplace use in English political debate, and Amyas Paulet made immediate efforts to find the Six livres for Edward Dyer. Shortly...
61 KB (8,133 words) - 15:27, 12 May 2024
secondary seat. He married Dorothy Bampfield (d.1614), daughter of Sir Amyas Bampfylde (1560–1626), MP, of Poltimore, near Exeter, and North Molton in...
21 KB (2,634 words) - 13:11, 25 March 2024
one of the bearers they used in 1332 to carry such a letter to William Amyas, a wealthy Nottingham ship owner, was Pymme's mother. In direct imitation...
70 KB (9,276 words) - 02:12, 14 May 2024
Chermayeff (1900–1996) Wells Coates (1895–1958) Sir Ninian Comper (1864–1960) Amyas Connell (1901–1980) James Hoey Craigie (1870–1930) Robert Cromie (1855-1907)...
35 KB (3,527 words) - 22:48, 13 April 2024
John Ferriby Merchant. 1479 William Welles 1480 John Marshall 1481 Robert Amyas 1482 Richard Yorke Mayor of the Staple 1483 John Newton Dyer. First year...
79 KB (1,366 words) - 02:29, 4 May 2024
South West William Carter 12,010 45.6 1 Constituency St Marylebone David Amyas Ross 10,960 25.7 2 Constituency Salford North Ben Tillett 17,333 46.2 1...
285 KB (553 words) - 04:58, 17 March 2024
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Jean Tabernor 999 Conservative Amyas Northcote 968 Conservative Alan Perkins 951 Labour John Coates 487 UKIP John...
31 KB (135 words) - 15:38, 18 December 2023
training in Bradford and district. Captain Honourable Charles Brodrick Amyas Bernard. For political and public services in Suffolk. Eliza Bird, MBE....
177 KB (20,684 words) - 18:42, 9 May 2024
Flying Corps Temp. Lt. Peter McGibbon MB, Royal Army Medical Corps 2nd Lt. Amyas MacGregor, Royal Engineers 2nd Lt. Alexander Cameron Mclntyre, Argyll and...
203 KB (27,898 words) - 11:06, 14 May 2024
Hollins 15,136 60.2 1 Pottery Workers 1928 St Marylebone by-election David Amyas Ross 6,721 29.4 2 Constituency 1928 Holborn by-election Percy Allott 2,238...
247 KB (834 words) - 19:06, 22 July 2023
John Deane Bourke, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Lt.-Col. Amyas Eden Borton DSO AFC Royal Highlanders Lt.-Col. Albert Fletcher CBE MC Royal...
239 KB (28,693 words) - 09:08, 20 April 2024