The Roanoke Colony | Episode 26 | Simply Strange
Aug 28 2019
34 mins
In March of 1584, Sir Walter Raleigh was awarded a charter by the Queen. His instructions were to discover, hold, and occupy the new lands to the west - this was to be the first permanent English settlement in North America. But, things did not go quite as smoothly as Raleigh would have hoped. His colonists struggled with poor weather, disease, lack of supplies, and strained relati