Robert Remini
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 19 Sep
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He never saw the coasts of the United States, but his name is rightly connected with our history because he tried again and again to found colonies on our shores.
In 1584, he sent Amadas and Barlow to explore the Atlantic seashore of North America.
Their reports were so favorable that he sent a strong colony to settle on Roanoke Island in Virginia.
as he named that region.
But the settlers soon became unhappy because they found no gold.
Then, too, their food began to fail, and Drake, happening along, took them back to England.
24.
The Lost Colony, 1587
Raleigh made still one more attempt to found a colony in Virginia, but the fate of this colony was most dreadful, for the settlers entirely disappeared, men, women, and children.
Among the lost was little Virginia Dare, the first English child born in America.
No one really knows what became of these people, but the Indians told the later settlers of Jamestown that they had been killed by the savages.
25.
Destruction of the Spanish Armada.
1588.
This activity of the English in America was very distressing to the King of Spain, for he claimed all America for himself and did not wish the Englishmen to go there thither.
He determined to conquer England and thus put an end to these English voyages.
But Hawkins, Drake, Raleigh, and the man behind the English guns were too strong even for the invincible Armada.
Spain's sea power never recovered from this terrible blow.
Englishmen could now found colonies with only slight fear of the Spaniards.
When the Spanish king learned of the settlement of Jamestown, he ordered an expedition to go from St.
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