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We Could Perceive No Sign of Them: Failed Colonies in North America, 1526-1689

We Could Perceive No Sign of Them: Failed Colonies in North America, 1526-1689

MacDonald, David
Waters, Raine

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Native American HistoryExplorationGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 159416388X
ISBN13: 9781594163883
Publisher: Westholme Pub
Published: Aug 12 2022
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The Story of the Many Ill-Fated Attempts by Europeans to Create Permanent Settlements in the New World
The nations of the modern Americas began as successful colonies, but not all colonies succeeded, and the margin between colonies that survived and those that failed was small. Both contribute to our understanding of the ordeals of the Europeans who first settled in the New World and of the Native Americans who had to interact with them, but with the exception of the famous lost Roanoke colony, the failed colonies of North America remain largely unknown except to specialists in colonial history. The Spanish and French repeatedly attempted to colonize parts of Georgia, Florida, and Virginia, while the Dutch, French, and English sought to establish permanent settlements along the northern waterways of the New World. The greatest problem faced by every colony was the specter of starvation. Native Americans gave food to newly arrived colonists, but such generosity could not endure. Indigenous people soon realized that colonists of every nationality were prepared to make war against Native peoples, conquer, subjugate, and even massacre whole communities unless they were cooperative and offered no resistance to the intrusion into their territory. In response, Native Americans withheld aid or resorted to retaliatory violence, dooming many European settlements.

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