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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... as planned? Why did he return to England? If not to fetch supplies, then why did he leave his colony? If not the war, then why didn't he come back? And if the Powhatan didn't kill them, then where were the Lost Colonists? The moment.
... as planned? Why did he return to England? If not to fetch supplies, then why did he leave his colony? If not the war, then why didn't he come back? And if the Powhatan didn't kill them, then where were the Lost Colonists? The moment.
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... leaves behind his daughter Eleanor, her baby Virginia, relatives and close friends, and sails back to England, pledging to return within three months. It is a promise he fails to keep. A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Mystery From the moment ...
... leaves behind his daughter Eleanor, her baby Virginia, relatives and close friends, and sails back to England, pledging to return within three months. It is a promise he fails to keep. A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Mystery From the moment ...
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... leaving the Little John plying off Dominica hoping to take some Spaniard outward bound to the Indies. Without her, they glide past Guadeloupe and St. Kitts. The Spaniards report many corsairs about, who are bold.8 The voyage, which has ...
... leaving the Little John plying off Dominica hoping to take some Spaniard outward bound to the Indies. Without her, they glide past Guadeloupe and St. Kitts. The Spaniards report many corsairs about, who are bold.8 The voyage, which has ...
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... leaving. Valdés sinks pen into ink and hurriedly notifies Spain. As far as John White is concerned, circumstances are completely altered. If he had been anxious to reach Roanoke before, he is doubly so now. Spain will swiftly mount.
... leaving. Valdés sinks pen into ink and hurriedly notifies Spain. As far as John White is concerned, circumstances are completely altered. If he had been anxious to reach Roanoke before, he is doubly so now. Spain will swiftly mount.
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... leaving the harbour.12 And then word of depredations arrives from Jamaica: the long-awaited Santo Domingo fleet was sighted and attacked. The English are jubilant. But who could have predicted the awful irony? The commander of the Santo ...
... leaving the harbour.12 And then word of depredations arrives from Jamaica: the long-awaited Santo Domingo fleet was sighted and attacked. The English are jubilant. But who could have predicted the awful irony? The commander of the Santo ...
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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