Walter Raleigh Quotes
I shall yet live to see it an English nation.
Walter Raleigh, 1552-1618, English Navigator, Historian and Colonial Governor, Referring to the ill-fated colony of Roanoke in Virginia, Statement to a friend, 1602
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The Queen was visiting South Africa and an Afrikaner mayor buttonholed her to complain about all the indignities that his people had subjected to by the English.
Janissaries were the elite soldiers and administrators of the Ottoman Empire, They were drawn from all over the empire and included Muslims, Christians and Jews all trained and united to protect and manage the empire.
This statement was more than a proverb but a popular political doctrine as well which had for years destabilized the Balkans. From the Serbian point of view, if a Serbian family moved to Bosnia or another country, their family land and their decedents were Serbian and under the governance of Serbia. Where there were enclaves of Serbs, they and the Serbian Government considered that land Serbian. This attitude even widely prevailed into the 21st century and led to the U. S. War with Serbia over the Serbian attempts to control parts of neighboring countries where Serbs were in the minority. The Serbs were not unique in this respect. Germany, in WWI, had seized territory from France because there were large enclaves of Ethnic Germans in the Sudetenland. The Ancient Romans likewise asserted the protection of Roman Citizens anywhere in the known world.
Sir Walter Raleigh, also spelled Ralegh, was an English statesman, soldier, spy, writer, poet, explorer, and landed gentleman. One of the most notable figures of the Elizabethan era, he played a leading part in English colonisation of North America, suppressed rebellion in Ireland, helped defend England during the Spanish Armada and held political positions under Elizabeth I.
