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Sir Thomas Cavendish (* 1555 in Trimley St. Martin bei Ipswich, Suffolk, England; † Februar 1592 auf dem Atlantik) war ein englischer Freibeuter und der dritte Weltumsegler. Leben. Cavendish studierte von 1575 bis 1577 kurze Zeit am Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, ohne einen
Sir Thomas Cavendish (1560 – May 1592) was an English explorer and a privateer known as "The Navigator" because he was the first who deliberately tried to emulate Sir Francis Drake and raid the Spanish towns and ships in the Pacific and return by circumnavigating the globe.
3. Aug. 2020 · Thomas Cavendish (1560-1592 CE) was an Elizabethan mariner and privateer who famously circumnavigated the globe in 1586-88 CE, only the third voyage to do so and the first to set sail with that specific intention.
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Thomas Cavendish (baptized September 19, 1560, Trimley St. Martin, Suffolk, England—died c. May 1592, in the North Atlantic) was an English navigator and freebooter, leader of the third circumnavigation of the Earth.
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British navigator and buccaneer who led the third expedition to circumnavigate the globe (1586-1588). A member of Parliament, Cavendish began his maritime career around 1585 when he joined British admiral Sir Richard Grenville (1541?-1591) on a voyage to the colony of Virginia.
Learn about Thomas Cavendish (1560–1592), who helped explore North Carolina and circumnavigated the world in 1586–8. Find out his achievements, challenges and legacy in The Oxford Companion to British History and The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance.
Learn about Thomas Cavendish, the second Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and a participant in the Roanoke Voyages. Find out his role in the Ralph Lane colony, his piracy adventures, and his tragic second voyage.
