Who is Sir Walter Rayleigh? Detailed answer

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Who is Sir Walter Rayleigh?

Almost everyone has heard the name of this man, but few seem to be well aware of him. There were many great men in the age of Elizabeth I, but Rayleigh was perhaps the man with the most developed gifts. He was a soldier, navigator, courtier, poet, colonizer, historian and scientist. Rayleigh was born around 1554 in Devonshire, England. As a young man he fought in France and later in Ireland. He won the favor of Queen Elizabeth Tudor, was knighted and held various positions in the government. Then Rayleigh found an interesting use for the money he received from the Queen. He used them to form settlements in America.

In 1585, Rayleigh sent a group of about a hundred people to the first colony for a year, who lived on Rownock Island, off the coast of North Carolina. It was the first English colony to experience life in the new world. All later founded colonies came from this settlement. Most of the first ideas about the Indians, about the geography of America, about the life of plants and animals, we owe to the efforts of Rayleigh. In 1587 he sent a second expedition, but all the settlers were lost in the forests. Rayleigh knew many of the great poets and prose writers of his time, and he himself was one of the leading poets of his age.

In 1595 he made his first voyage to Guiana in South America, where he hoped to find gold. When King James I ascended the throne, he accused Rayleigh of conspiring against himself and condemned him to death. Although the execution was suspended, he spent most of the rest of his life in the Tower of London. There Rayleigh wrote the great book "History of the World" and conducted chemical experiments.

In 1616 he was released from prison and sailed again to Guiana. Finding no gold, he was then defeated by the Spaniards, returned to England, where he was executed in 1618. Rayleigh brought potatoes from the New World to Ireland and also made tobacco smoking popular in Europe.

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