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Encyclopedia > Walter Raleigh (professor)

Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh was a scholar and author circa 1900. A few of his works are available on Project Gutenberg, where they may be mistakenly attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh.


External links

  • Robert Louis Stevenson (http://www.gutenberg.net/browse/BIBREC/BR333.HTM); Walter Raleigh; Project Gutenberg edition.
  • Style (http://www.gutenberg.net/browse/BIBREC/BR1038.HTM); Walter Raleigh; Project Gutenberg edition.
  • England and the War (http://www.gutenberg.net/browse/BIBREC/BR10159.HTM); Walter Raleigh; Project Gutenberg edition.

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Walter Raleigh Information (1639 words)
Walter Raleigh was born at Hayes Barton, in Devon, England.
Raleigh's family was Protestant in religious orientation and experienced a number of near escapes during the reign of the Catholic queen Mary I of England.
From 1600 to 1603, Raleigh was Governor of Jersey and responsible for modernising the defences of the island.
Walter Raleigh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1362 words)
Walter Raleigh was born at Hayes Barton, in Devon, England.
Raleigh was Governor of Jersey 1600–1603, responsible for modernising the defences of the island.
Raleigh was released from the Tower in 1616 to conduct a second expedition to the Orinoco in search of El Dorado, in the course of which his men, under the command of Lawrence Keymis, sacked the Spanish outpost of San Thome.
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