Colonisation of Virginia

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GCSE GCSE History (Elizabeth) Flashcards on Colonisation of Virginia, created by Sea Chel Pie on 06/06/2018.
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Flashcards by Sea Chel Pie, updated more than 1 year ago
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1578 Sir Humfrey Gilbert sets out to N.America on voyage of exploration but fails and is bankrupted
1580 Drake returns from circumnavigating the globe with spices, treasure, and tales of Nova Albion
1583 Gilbert leads another voyage of exploration to america. It failed. Gilbert dies on the return journey
1584 Raleigh begins planning new colonisation attempt by sending a fact-finding mission in Virginia
1585 Colonists set sail for North America to begin the English colonisation of Virginia
1586 Surviving colonists abandon Virginia and return back to Engliand
1587 A new group of colonists arrive in Virginia and establish a colony at Roanoke
1590 English sailors arrive at Roanoke only to find it abandoned. All colonists disappeared
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