Sir Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh was a favourite courtier of Elizabeth I, a soldier and adventurer tasked with establishing a colony in North America, though he preferred searching for El Dorado, the fabled lost city of gold, further south. Accusations of conspiracy against James I led to a long imprisonment in the Tower in 1603, and ultimately to Raleigh’s execution in 1618.

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