Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh was an English explorer, courtier, and writer in the Elizabethan era, famous for expeditions to the Americas and his role in popularizing tobacco in England.
Legend credits him with laying his cloak over a puddle for Queen Elizabeth I.
He was eventually executed for treason.
The name sometimes appears in contexts evoking Elizabethan adventure or courtly gallantry.
- Francis DrakeTudor-era English admiral
- tobaccoDried smoking leaf
- Elizabeth IFinal Tudor sovereign
- VirginiaMid-Atlantic American state
- pipe smokingInhaling from bowl and stem
Roanoke Colony · El Dorado · New World · puddle · Christopher Marlowe · James I · Guiana · golden age · execution · cloak · espionage · Spanish Armada · Lost Colony · Tower · Atlantic Ocean · Renaissance literature · sonnet · pirate
- British KnightsSir Francis Drake, Sir Thomas More, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Alex Ferguson
- ExplorersColumbus, Christopher Columbus, Magellan, Cortez, Marco Polo
- poetspoet, Homer, Dante, Milton, Emily Dickinson
- seafarerssailor, seaman, mariner, able seaman, merchant seaman
- Colonial VirginiaJamestown, James River, tobacco cultivation, Powhatan, Pocahontas
- Early Modern EnglandLondon, Shakespeare, Globe Theatre, Queen Elizabeth, Cromwell