The Lost Colony Of Roanoke Quotes

In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the English had been among the pioneers of Atlantic exploration, but during the long reign of Henry VIII (Queen Elizabeth’s father) merchants and mariners had turned away from distant horizons and focused instead on opportunities nearer to home, trading with Europe and countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. Other

Early in 1583 Elizabeth granted Ralegh the use of Durham House, a “noble palace” on the Thames, formerly the London residence of the bishops of Durham.

Hariot would make a detailed record of the New World in writing, and White would undertake a series of illustrations and paintings. Together they would be Ralegh’s ears and eyes in America.

HAVING ASSEMBLED the men who would plan and take part in his expeditions to America, Ralegh’s next task was to determine where a colony should be located and what kind of settlement it would be.

Other explorations had set up colonies (most infamously, the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke), but all had failed for various reasons.