Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost ColonyNovember 1587. A report reaches London that Sir Walter Raleigh’s expedition, which left England months before to land the first English settlers in America, has foundered. On Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, a tragedy is unfolding. Something has gone very wrong, and the colony—115 men, women, and children, among them the first English child born in the New World, Virginia Dare—is in trouble. But there will be no rescue. Before help can reach them, all will vanish with barely a trace. The Lost Colony is America’s oldest unsolved mystery. In this remarkable example of historical detective work, Lee Miller goes back to the original evidence and offers a fresh solution to the enduring legend. She establishes beyond doubt that the tragedy of the Lost Colony did not begin on the shores of Roanoke but within the walls of Westminster, in the inner circle of Queen Elizabeth’s government. As Miller detects, powerful men had reason to want Raleigh’s mission to fail. Furthermore, Miller shows what must have become of the settlers, left to face a hostile world that was itself suffering the upheavals of an alien invasion. Narrating a thrilling tale of court intrigue, spy rings, treachery, sabotage, Native American politics, and colonial power, Miller has finally shed light on a four-hundred-year-old unsolved mystery. |
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... English fort. New cottages were constructed of brick and tile,1 and on August 18, White's daughter Eleanor and husband Ananias Dare became the parents of a baby girl. Christened Virginia, she was the first English child born in North ...
... English fort. New cottages were constructed of brick and tile,1 and on August 18, White's daughter Eleanor and husband Ananias Dare became the parents of a baby girl. Christened Virginia, she was the first English child born in North ...
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... English were permanently settled in North America, tantalizing signs of the colony surfaced. Strange sightings were reported in Virginia and again in North Carolina, in areas widely separated. Search parties dispatched from Jamestown ...
... English were permanently settled in North America, tantalizing signs of the colony surfaced. Strange sightings were reported in Virginia and again in North Carolina, in areas widely separated. Search parties dispatched from Jamestown ...
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... English ship's presence, armament, and munitions. More importantly, he relays crucial information gathered from an unguarded word spoken by the crew. The English ship was going, the Governor noted pointedly, to Florida to take off 200 ...
... English ship's presence, armament, and munitions. More importantly, he relays crucial information gathered from an unguarded word spoken by the crew. The English ship was going, the Governor noted pointedly, to Florida to take off 200 ...
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... English corsairs are about. The shamelessness of these English ships soon reaches the powerful Audiencia of the Council of the Indies. From Havana, it is reported that the Hopewell and her consorts have seized or chased every vessel ...
... English corsairs are about. The shamelessness of these English ships soon reaches the powerful Audiencia of the Council of the Indies. From Havana, it is reported that the Hopewell and her consorts have seized or chased every vessel ...
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... English tunes of songs. There is only silence. White shouts into the night. The crew joins him, a chorus of voices, and called to them friendly. Darkness all around. Disappointment rings in White's voice: we had no answer. With sinking ...
... English tunes of songs. There is only silence. White shouts into the night. The crew joins him, a chorus of voices, and called to them friendly. Darkness all around. Disappointment rings in White's voice: we had no answer. With sinking ...
Contents
A Case of Missing Persons | |
Of London | |
Of Population | |
The Colonists | |
In Certain Danger | |
Grenville and | |
The Fall | |
PART FOUR WHO ARE THE MANDOAG? | |
Raleighs Search | |
Jamestown | |
War on the Powhatan | |
Requiem | |
Deep in the Interior | |
Who Are the Mandoag? | |
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