[Sca-cooks] A little Roanoke Island history
Radei Drchevich
radei at moscowmail.com
Tue Jan 17 19:48:30 PST 2006
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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