Second son of a wealthy English gentleman, Humphrey Gilbert was educated at Eton and Oxford before joining the army and seeing action in Ireland, France, and Holland. Gilbert took an early ...

In 1583, Humphrey Gilbert left on a second venture to the New World with five ships: the Delight, the Bark Raleigh, the Golden Hind, the Squirrel, and the Swallow. In his work entitled Divers ...