Sir Walter Ralegh, the First West Indian Adventurer
Walter Ralegh's impact on British history and the history of English adventurism is unrivaled, and it will take a few posts to cover his West Indian adventures alone.
There may be more books that either discuss or were written about Sir Walter Ralegh than any other Englishman save perhaps England’s monarchs. Voluminous biographies have been written about him since the seventeenth century, and he remains a subject of great interest among historians today. Covering every aspect of the great man’s life is well beyond th…
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