Explorer, soldier, favorite of the Queen. The Lost Colony? But he never set foot in North America. And on 29 October 1618 he met his fate with the axe. But, what if . . .

1. Beheaded on
29 October 1618
Who Was
Sir Walter Raleigh?

2. In 1580, Raleigh was one of the leaders of a party
that beheaded over 600 Spanish and Italian
soldiers who were taken prisoner at the Siege of
Smerwick.
Below is a monument to the dead.

3. Early in his life he had a vision
from what he believed was an
angel from God who told him that
he would not die in battle.
A man with that kind of belief can
accomplish many things.

4. As far as the infamous
laying down of the
cloak for Queen
Elizabeth I?
The first mention of this
came 80 years after his
death, so . . .
However, he was one of
her favorites at court.

5. In 1584, he received a
charter from Queen
Elizabeth I to explore and
rule any "remote, heathen
and barbarous lands,
countries, and territories, not
actually possessed of any
Christian Prince, or inhabited
by Christian People.”
He would get 1/5th of all the
gold and silver that might be
mined there.

6. He ruled an estate in
Ireland for many years,
before exploring the New
World at the behest of
Queen Elizabeth. He
himself never landed in
North America, although
he sent an expedition to
Roanoke, which would
become known as the
Lost Colony.

7. In 1591 he secretly
married one of the
Queen’s ladies-in-
waiting, Elizabeth
Throckmorton. They
were briefly
imprisoned in the
tower by an outraged
Queen.

8. Queen Elizabeth I died on 23 March 1603.
Raleigh was arrested for treason for his
part in the plot against the successor,
James I, on 19 July 1603. He was convicted
and thrown in the Tower. He remained
there until 1616.

9. He wrote “The History of the
World” about ancient Greece and
Rome while a prisoner.

10. He was briefly let out in 1617 to
search for El Dorado, the famed city
of gold in South America. He didn’t
find it.
Returning to England, Raleigh was
once more arrested, this time for
attacking the Spanish against orders.

11. On 29 October 1618, he was taken to the
Old Palace Yard in London to be executed.
Seeing the axe, he remarked: “This is a
sharp medicine, but is a physician for all
diseases and miseries.”

12. But.
What if he didn’t die under the axe?
How would history change?

13. Our timeline is being attacked. If the
Shadow can change six events in the
past, on the same day in different years,
it will cause a Time Tsunami and out
timeline will be wiped out.
The only thing standing between us and
obliteration is: the Time Patrol

14. London. 29 October 1618.
Time Patrol Agent Mac is there, amongst a
group of conspirators who want to free
Raleigh and escape to Spain, so Raleigh can
reveal English defenses to the Spanish Crown.
And the plan looks like it will work.
How does Mac get Raleigh to accept his fate?

15. What will Mac decide?
This mission along with
29 Oct 1969: Birth of the Internet
29 Oct 999: A Viking raid on an English Monastery
29 Oct 1972: Survivors of a plane crash in the
Andes struggle to live
29 Oct 1980: The last test flight of Operation
Credible Sport
29 Oct 1929: The day the stock market crashes.
Are all in:

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Roland’s complete mission from Independence Day.
4 July 1865, at Gettysburg. HERE
Mac’s complete mission from D-Day.
6 June 1944. HERE
Moms mission from Ides of March.
15 March 44 BC. HERE

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