Captain Sir Christopher Newport

Sir Christopher Newport was one of the 3 founders of Jamestown in 1607, he also established the first permanent English Colony in North America. Sir Christopher Newport was an explorer but not only an explorer he was a captain and then quickly became a master mariner at sea, then later in life he was promoted again to one of the principal masters of the navy. Sir Christopher Newport was in war with spain in 1587, and raided the Spanish Caribbean yearly until 1603, after that a peace was signed with them, he went back to trading goods with other countries. The war that he fought was called the Anglo-Spanish War and began in 1585 and ended in 1605. Captain Sir Christopher Newport was remembered for being one of the 3 founders of the Virginia
After years spent as a privateer attacking Spanish settlements and raiding Spanish ships, he was made a captain in 1590. His first command was the Little John, a privateer vessel belonging to a London merchant, with which he continued to campaign against Spanish settlements in the Caribbean. It was during that period that he lost his right arm in battle. Newport’s other commands included the Golden Dragon and a four-ship flotilla. One of his greatest coups was the taking in 1592 of a treasure-laden Portuguese ship, the Madre de Dios. He became part owner of the Neptune, a privateering vessel, in the mid-1590s. Newport was elevated to the rank of principal master of the Royal Navy in 1606, the same year that he was chosen by the Virginia Company to lead a colonizing mission to the New World. He set sail from London in December 1606 in command of the Discovery, the Godspeed, and the Susan Constant. That small fleet entered Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay on April 26, 1607. Following their landing at Cape Henry, Newport was made a member of the colony’s seven-person governing body, according to the sealed instructions of the Virginia Company that were opened at landfall. Also at the company’s behest, the colonists settled inland from the coast, on a peninsula in the James River. That settlement, named Jamestown for England’s King James I, was established on May 13, 1607.
He traded ships in Jamestown to help for wealth there and help the poverty because of how small of a town it was. Captain John Smith and Captain Sir Christopher Newport maintained a peace with the nearby Algonquian Indians, so they wouldn't be attacked and