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Sir Walter Raleigh in Ireland

On the scaffold, he refused a blindfold, put his head on the block, delivered a short prayer and urged the executioner on. The axe-man hesitated. ‘Strike man, strike!’ called the great adventurer. Thus ended the life of one of the most enigmatic adventurers, soldiers, scholars and courtiers of the Tudor Age.