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Explorer Sir Walter Raleigh; Be Persistent: He used charm, military prowess and hard work to gain success.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)
Byline: CURT SCHLEIER
Sir Walter Raleigh used brains as well as brawn when he went to war.
In 1581, Raleigh was in Ireland fighting for England. He was given 90 men and assigned to capture a suspected traitor named Lord Roche and bring him and his wife to Cork.
The Irish found out and, according to Steven Olson, author of "Sir Walter Raleigh," put 1,300 men in his path to ambush him.
Raleigh marched around the ambush and reached Lord Roche's palace without a casualty. Once there, he realized there's more than one way to storm a castle.
As Raleigh Trevelyan notes in his biography, also called "Sir Walter Raleigh," rather than get into a pitched battle that might cause many losses on both sides, he placed his men in strategic positions. Then he walked up to the gate, knocked and asked to speak to His Lordship.
Little by little, as he waited, he sneaked his men into the building and convinced the lord to accompany him peacefully.
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