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Privateering and Colonization in the Reign of Elizabeth I: Raleigh in Exeter 1985

Privateering and Colonization in the Reign of Elizabeth I: Raleigh in Exeter 1985

Youings, Joyce

Paperback

Series: Exeter Studies in History,, Book 10

General World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 0859892522
ISBN13: 9780859892520
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Published: Jun 1 1985
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Colonisation by the European powers has always had its seamier side and the first attempt to settle English people on the North American mainland - by one of Queen Elizabeth's favourite courtiers, Sir Walter Raleigh - was no exception. The hunt for prize ships and cargoes was a major attraction for the sea-captains and their crews who sailed across the Atlantic in the years 1584-7. For the promoters, including Raleigh, it was usually the prime consideration, the only way of making the voyages financially viable. But for many generation of Americans, especially the people of North Carolina, Raleigh's colonising efforts, however immediately unavailing, sowed seeds of endeavours whose fruits were later gathered by the settlers of Virginia, Maryland and also New England. Englishmen wintered on Roanoke Island a generation before Jamestown.

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