76-Roanoke Colony
Discovering America Podcast
English - February 05, 2016 03:18 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsSociety & Culture History america american discovering history Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Sir Walter Raleigh wanted to be a part of the colonization of the New World. He had the financial abilities to fund such a venture. And so with a patient in hand from the Queen of England, the voyages began to establish a colony on the shores of what they called Wingandacon, later called Virginia and today is actually the state of North Carolina. The settlement only lasted 10 months; the settlers were picked up by none other than Sir Francis Drake. If there was a Walmart there, we would have stayed.