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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... decided to become a Roman Catholic , but the Spaniards were unimpressed , since this was not accompanied by any serious effort against Protestants . Elizabeth had offered help to Henri , in return for her having Calais - at which he was ...
... decided to become a Roman Catholic , but the Spaniards were unimpressed , since this was not accompanied by any serious effort against Protestants . Elizabeth had offered help to Henri , in return for her having Calais - at which he was ...
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... decided that it would be too dangerous to make a direct attack on Ferrol , given that it lay at the end of a narrow two - mile channel . Instead fire - ships would have to be sent in , and among those selected were the two unlucky ...
... decided that it would be too dangerous to make a direct attack on Ferrol , given that it lay at the end of a narrow two - mile channel . Instead fire - ships would have to be sent in , and among those selected were the two unlucky ...
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... decided to give him the ' truth ' about the French commission and promises of aid from France . But there was very little that was really new . He did , he said , have a commission from the Duc de Montmorency , and it had been relayed ...
... decided to give him the ' truth ' about the French commission and promises of aid from France . But there was very little that was really new . He did , he said , have a commission from the Duc de Montmorency , and it had been relayed ...
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