Sir Walter RaleighYou have lived like a star at which the world has gazed, said the judge at Sir Walter Raleigh's trial. He was fortune's tennis ball, said another contemporary, to many others he was an arrogant liar. |
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Page 83
... Spanish horsemen duly appeared , hovering in the distance . There were two Spanish garrisons in the vicinity , one at Guayanilla and the other further inland , at San Germán , founded in 1573 , where one of the great glories of Spanish ...
... Spanish horsemen duly appeared , hovering in the distance . There were two Spanish garrisons in the vicinity , one at Guayanilla and the other further inland , at San Germán , founded in 1573 , where one of the great glories of Spanish ...
Page 207
... Spanish Main ( the north coast of South America ) had been made by Sir John Borough in Raleigh's Roebuck with three other ships . Although he had been repulsed after an attack on the Spanish garrison on the island of Margarita , with ...
... Spanish Main ( the north coast of South America ) had been made by Sir John Borough in Raleigh's Roebuck with three other ships . Although he had been repulsed after an attack on the Spanish garrison on the island of Margarita , with ...
Page 248
... Spanish Main . None of the following appears in the Discoverie , presumably because the results were so disastrous . The details are mostly gleaned from Spanish reports.3 With Berrío and Jorge on board , he went first to the island of ...
... Spanish Main . None of the following appears in the Discoverie , presumably because the results were so disastrous . The details are mostly gleaned from Spanish reports.3 With Berrío and Jorge on board , he went first to the island of ...
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