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The colony was led by a council that included ... that without the aid of the Powhatan during this time, the Jamestown settlement would have failed. Despite the help, more continued to die from ...

The Virginia Company of London was desperate to populate its struggling colony in America ... There the colonists established their new settlement. Almost eight hundred more settlers arrived ...

New archaeological finds on the islands have revealed secrets about one of Britain’s first settlements in the Americas—and ...

Reaching the abandoned settlement, the governor spotted a ... Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard from the Indians that men wearing European clothes were living on ...

When the first settlers arrived in Jamestown in April 1607 and raised a cross at Cape Henry, claiming the land for England, ...

For the Jamestown colony, established in 1607 in what is now Virginia, that purpose was establishing the first English settlement in the new world. Yaddo is an artist’s colony, where creative ...

The reality of the new colony couldn't have been further from ... weeks before they were to pick the site of there new settlement, Jamestown -- they were attacked by local Indians and driven ...

The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation encourages visitors to celebrate the season with Jamestown Settlement and the American ...

As part of the 250th anniversary of the Yorktown Tea Party and Market Days’ Maritime Festival, which is taking place Nov. 7-9, the Jamestown Settlement’s Godspeed will join other maritime ...

Established in 1607, Jamestown was the first permanent British colony in America ... Indians if they ventured beyond the walls of the settlement. By the time relief arrived in 1610, conditions ...

The site of the original Jamestown fort in Virginia. “What had begun as a settlement of 104 men and boys was reduced to 38,” says Amy Stallings, a university lecturer and guide at Historic ...