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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Floundering from two years of warfare with Indians and dissent among the settlers, the Virginia Company was about to collapse. To rescue the doomed colonists and restore order, the company chose a new leader, Thomas Gates. Nine ships left Plymouth in the summer of 1609--the largest fleet England had ever assembled--and sailed into the teeth of a storm.... The inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest, the hurricane separated the flagship from the...
Author
Publisher
Rourke Pub. LLC
Pub. Date
c2002
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IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of Captain John Smith, the sixteenth-century explorer best known for sailing from England to America in 1607 where he and his passengers built Jamestown, the first English settlement in the New World.