From Settlement to Superpower

Episode 40 – The First Roanoke Colony


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We're back, after a month's hiatus, and in this episode we discuss Sir Walter Raleigh's first colony at Roanoke Island. Commanded by Governor Ralph Lane, the colonists soon managed to make enemies of the local Roanoc Indians. Warned of a planned Indian surprise attack by Manteo, Lane succeeded in killing Wingina in a surprise attack on the village of Dasemunkepeuc. However, the colonists were still beset by danger when Sir Francis Drake sailed up to Roanoke Island and offered to bring them back to England. Thus failed the first Roanoke Colony, but from its ashes a second, more tragic colony would emerge: the second Roanoke colony, The Lost Colony.
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