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German machine-gun emplacement destroyed by British artillery fire

William II (Rufus) (1056-1100)

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Sir Walter Raleigh, English writer, poet, courtier, adventurer and explorer mb-width 3937 500 feet in pencil toSir Walter Raleigh, English writer, poet, courtier, adventurer and explorer, (1825). Raleigh (1554 1618) was a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, who knighted him in 1585. In 1584 1589 he was involved in an unsuccessful attempt to establish a colony in North America, but did introduce tobacco and the potato to Britain from the New World. Accused of treason by Elizabeth's successor, James I, he was imprisoned in the Tower of London and eventually put to