[Sca-cooks] A little Roanoke Island history

[Radei Drchevich]

That's what I remember.  they made a movie "Who's Afraid of Virginia
Dare?"<g>

joy

radei

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Pat
  To: "Cooks within the SCA"
  Subject: [Sca-cooks] A little Roanoke Island history
  Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:13:56 -0800 (PST)


  In 1584, Sir Walter Raleigh sent the explorers Amadas and Barlowe
  to search for a good site for a colony along the Atlantic Coast.
  They chose Roanoke Island.
  In 1585, Raleigh sent a garrison of 100 men to Roanoke. Poor
  plannning and leadership led to it's failure, and Sir Francis Drake
  rescued the garrison in 1586.
  In 1587, Raleigh sent 117 men and women (including Governor John
  White and John White's pregnant daughter, Eleanor Dare and her
  husband Annanais Dare.) to colonize the Chesapeake Bay area.
  Unfortunately the pilot he hired to do so, a Portugese named
  Fernandes, ordered them ashore at Roanoke Island. On August 18,
  while they were unloading and repairing the abandoned fort, Eleanor
  gave birth to Virginia, first English child born on American soil.
  Ten days later Governor White sailed with Fernandes, returning to
  England to beg more supplies. His return to the island was delayed
  by the impending invasion of the Spanish Armada. Finally, two
  years after the defeat of the Armada, he returned, only to find the
  site abandoned, and no clue as to where they went, or what happened.
  This is the famous "Lost Colony."




  Lady Anne du Bosc
  known as Mordonna the Cook
  Shire of Thorngill, Meridies
  Mundanely, Pat Griffin of Millbrook, AL



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