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The Lost Colony of Roanoke: Its Fate and Survival (1915)

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The Lost Colony of Roanoke: Its Fate and Survival (1915)

The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, established on Roanoke Island, in what is today's Dare County, North Carolina, United States, was a late 16th-century attempt by Queen Elizabeth I to establish a permanent English settlement. The enterprise wasoriginally financed and organized by Sir Humphrey Gilbert, who drowned in 1583 during an aborted attempt to colonize St. John's, Newfoundland. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's half-brother, Sir Walter Raleigh, later gained his brother's charter from the Queen and subsequently executed the details of the charter through his delegates Ralph Lane and Richard Grenville, Raleigh's distant cousin.

The final group of colonists disappeared during the Anglo-Spanish War, three years after the last shipment of supplies from England. Their disappearance gave rise to the nickname "The Lost Colony". To this day there has been no conclusive evidence as to what happened to the colonists.

This book points to evidence suggesting that this colony merged with local tribes and became one people.

This pre-1923 publication has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting process.
Country USA
Author Stephen B. Weeks
Binding Kindle Edition
Format Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages 23
PublicationDate 2014-10-19
ReleaseDate 2014-10-19

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