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| − | '''Sir Walter | + | '''Sir Walter Raleigh''' (pronounced ''rawley'' in America and ''rally'' in England) was a British explorer and [[colonist]] of the 15th century A.D. He founded the colony of [[Roanoke Island]] in [[Virginia]], which he was going to use as a base for [[privateering]] missions against the Spanish and Portuguese.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Raleigh] But before he could sail back to England, the whole colony disappeared, thus proving prophetic its name "The Lost Colony". |
Sir Walter Raleigh was quite well rounded; he was not only an explorer, but also credited with bringing [[tobacco]] from the New World back to Europe, wrote a number of poems including the Waverley novels, and was beheaded on October 29, 1618. | Sir Walter Raleigh was quite well rounded; he was not only an explorer, but also credited with bringing [[tobacco]] from the New World back to Europe, wrote a number of poems including the Waverley novels, and was beheaded on October 29, 1618. | ||
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Sir Walter Raleigh (pronounced rawley in America and rally in England) was a British explorer and colonist of the 15th century A.D. He founded the colony of Roanoke Island in Virginia, which he was going to use as a base for privateering missions against the Spanish and Portuguese.[1] But before he could sail back to England, the whole colony disappeared, thus proving prophetic its name "The Lost Colony".
Sir Walter Raleigh was quite well rounded; he was not only an explorer, but also credited with bringing tobacco from the New World back to Europe, wrote a number of poems including the Waverley novels, and was beheaded on October 29, 1618.
In 1940, Errol Flynn played a character based on Raleigh in the movie The Sea Hawk.