Colonial Times

Everybody remembers Jamestown, capt. John Smith, Pocahontas and all the rest. But do you remember Roanoke? In 1585, after a small scouting expedition had returned from North America with two Native Americans and many other astonishing stories, Sir Walter Raleigh tried to establish a colony called Roanoke in the land witch the British called "Virginia", in honor of Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen. The site was actually was Carolina's coast. Sir Richard Grenville led the fleet that was