Raleigh, Sir Walter

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1. An English explorer of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He is best known for his expeditions to the Americas and for introducing tobacco and the potato, two products of the New World, into England.

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Raleigh is often considered a near-ideal English gentleman of the Renaissance. A well-known legend holds that he spread his coat over a mud puddle so that Queen Elizabeth I would not have to soil her feet by walking through it.

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Raleigh, Sir Walter

Raleigh, Sir Walter, his colony in America, 14, 16.

From The Founder of New France A Chronicle of Champlain by Charles W. (Charles William) Colby

Raleigh Sir Walter Raleigh took up the interesting plan which his kinsman, Gilbert, had at heart.

From Introductory American History by Henry Eldridge Bourne

Railway Conciliation Boards, and their working, 111, 112 Raleigh, Sir Walter, 1, 3 Regina v.

From The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry

Raleigh, Sir Walter, i, 261; iv, 81, 108, 190; on English table-manners, xiii, 73; James I and, viii, 58; execution of, ix, 309.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Elbert Hubbard

Raleigh, Sir Walter, an inveterate duellist, abandons the custom, ii.

From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay