He began as a teen soldier

First of all, one of the most interesting facts about Sir Walter Raleigh is he started as a teenage soldier. The early years of Raleigh are a little unknown. In Devon, England, Walter Raleigh was born in 1554 into a wealthy family with land (although some date his birth to 1552). Walter Raleigh (d. 1581) of Fardell, Devon, had a younger son named Raleigh by his third marriage, Katherine Gilbert (née Champernowne).

Before he had even reached adulthood, he enlisted in the military and fought alongside the Protestant French Huguenots in France's late-16th-century religious civil conflicts. Later information indicates that he attended the Middle Temple law institution as well as Oxford University's Oriel College (1572). (1575). He engaged in combat with Irish rebels in Munster in 1580, and Queen Elizabeth became aware of him as a result of his open criticism of the way English policy was being carried out in Ireland. He had won the monarch's favor by 1582, and he started to amass lucrative monopolies, assets, and powerful posts.