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SYMHC Classics: The Beheading of Sir Walter Raleigh

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The History of the World by James Raleigh

Raleigh and the other condemned men were taken out to the scaffold one at a time to be executed. But each one was given a last minute's stay and sentenced to imprisonment instead. He spent the next 13 years im prison in the tower of london. While in the tower, he wrote a morality book for boys called instructions to his son. And he also wrote the history of the world, which started with creation and went to the second macedonian war In 16 16 Raleigh convinced king james to let him out of prison on condition that he not attack spain in any way. The anglo spanish was finally over, and James didn't want to start it up again

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