This article is about the sixteenth-century explorer. For other uses of Raleigh, see
Raleigh Sir Walter Raleigh (c.1552 –
29 October,
1618), was a famed
English writer,
poet,
courtier and
explorer. He was responsible for establishing the second English colony in the
New World (after Newfoundland was established by Sir Humphrey Gilbert nearly one year previously, August 5 1583), on
June 4, 1584, at
Roanoke Island in present-day
North Carolina. When the third attempt at settlement failed, the ultimate fate of the colonists was never authoritatively ascertained, and it became known as
"The Lost Colony".
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