Roanoke Island Research Paper

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1582 my half-brother Sir Humphrey Gilbert organized a company to settle English Catholics in the Americas. Queen Elizabeth had forbidding me to accompany my half brother, but I invested money and a ship to the mission. My brother died on his return from Newfoundland, a region that is now a province of eastern Canada, I was given authority from the queen to “occupy and enjoy” new lands. In 1584, Queen Elizabeth gave me my brother’s charter to discovering the new world. I sent men to go explore Roanoke Island. Due to Fighting, lack of discipline, and Indians, the men decided to return back to England. In 1587 I attempted another expedition, led by John white to Roanoke island. John White went to England to get more supplies for the colonists,

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