Roanoke Colony Found Summary
John White was finally returning back to Roanoke Island after a three year long supply run to the mother land of England. White a colonist leader of the Roanoke Island settlement had high hopes for a friendly welcoming from his daughter and granddaughter, but he never would have guess that silence would be the scariest sound of them all. With Privateer Hopewell be his side and 118 armed men ready to drop off supplies, but not seeing a single sign of life on the beachfront. To further investigate the settlement White finds the houses dismantled carefully and almost all of the belongings gone. In the minds of these men they believed they have stumbled onto a well-organized relocation of the settlement. The only signs of a clue was written
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After the step by step beginning of the White’s return to the settlement. What the Horn shows the reader is that there were actually numerous times and missions that the English took to the Roanoke colony in nowadays North Carolina. The first mission that Horn speaks of is the main mission that Queen Elizabeth set onto Sir Walter Raleigh in 1583 as predecessor of the Spanish exploration of the New World that was successful for them. It wasn’t until the following year that Raleigh would set sail with 2 ships of 118 men and women to Roanoke colony, knowing that the terrain that they were going to wasn’t an easy land to live in, it made Raleigh mind not at ease. Ralph Lane the man put in charge of the colony made sure that they would make mainly a profit for the English. What struck the fancy of Raleigh and Lane was the first meeting between the Europeans and the Moratuc Indians, making sure that the new colonist new that there was riches in this land outside of the not so fertile land they were settling on. Horn went on to talk about the obstacles that colonist hard outside of the not so fertile land. The biggest one that struck John White newly placed Governor of the Roanoke colony was the once friendly turned hostile group of Indians called the Secotan. White’s plan was to move the settlement further
After the step by step beginning of the White’s return to the settlement. What the Horn shows the reader is that there were actually numerous times and missions that the English took to the Roanoke colony in nowadays North Carolina. The first mission that Horn speaks of is the main mission that Queen Elizabeth set onto Sir Walter Raleigh in 1583 as predecessor of the Spanish exploration of the New World that was successful for them. It wasn’t until the following year that Raleigh would set sail with 2 ships of 118 men and women to Roanoke colony, knowing that the terrain that they were going to wasn’t an easy land to live in, it made Raleigh mind not at ease. Ralph Lane the man put in charge of the colony made sure that they would make mainly a profit for the English. What struck the fancy of Raleigh and Lane was the first meeting between the Europeans and the Moratuc Indians, making sure that the new colonist new that there was riches in this land outside of the not so fertile land they were settling on. Horn went on to talk about the obstacles that colonist hard outside of the not so fertile land. The biggest one that struck John White newly placed Governor of the Roanoke colony was the once friendly turned hostile group of Indians called the Secotan. White’s plan was to move the settlement further