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Sir Walter Raleigh’s Early Life

Sir Walter Raleigh was born in 1552 to Walter Raleigh and Catherine Champernowne. He was raised in a farmhouse near the village of East Budleigh in Devon, England.

Raleigh studied at Oxford before serving in the Huguenot army in France (1569).

Sir Walter Raleigh gave up trying to get people to come to America but he found two things in this country which the people of England knew very little about.

Sir Walter Raleigh gave up trying to get people to come to America but he found two things in this country which the people of England knew very little about.

His biography of Sir Walter Raleigh (Sir Walter Raleigh and the Quest for El Dorado won the ALA's first Robert L. Sibert Information Book Award for nonfiction.

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Authored by Sir Walter Raleigh, a pivotal character in England's Elizabethan era, "Life (Raleigh Version)" provides an exciting gleaning.

A rival of the Earl of Essex for the queen’s favors, he served (1580) in Elizabeth’s army in Ireland, distinguishing himself by his ruthlessness at the siege of Smerwick and by the plantation of English and Scots Protestants in Munster.

Elizabeth rewarded him with a large estate in Ireland, knighted him (1585) and gave him trade privileges and the right to colonize America.

Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth

In 1587, Raleigh explored North America from North Carolina to present-day Florida, naming the region Virginia in honor of Elizabeth, the “Virgin Queen.” (Raleigh never stepped foot in Virginia himself.)

In 1587 Raleigh sent an ill-fated second expedition of colonists to Roanoke.

In 1588 he took pa