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Sir Walter Raleigh’s Early Life

Sir Walter Raleigh was born in 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 ().

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A rival of the Earl of Essex for the queen’s favors, he served () 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 () and gave him trade privileges and the right to colonize America.

Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth

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

In he took part in the victory over the Span