The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America (John MacRae Books)

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A freshly researched account of the dramatic rescue of the Jamestown

settlers

 

The English had long dreamed of colonizing The us, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids within the Caribbean. Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New World colony appeared within reach when in 1606 Thomas Smythe extended out of the country trade with the launch of the Virginia Company. But from the start the American enterprise used to be a disaster. Within two years warfare with Indians and dissent some of the settlers threatened to destroy Smythe’s Jamestown just as it had Raleigh’s Roanoke a generation in advance.

To rescue the doomed colonists and restore order, the company chose a new leader, Thomas Gates. Nine ships left Plymouth in the summertime of 1609—the most important fleet England had ever assembled—and sailed into the teeth of a storm so violent that “it beat all light from Heaven.” The inspiration for Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the hurricane separated the flagship from the fleet, driving it onto reefs off the coast of Bermuda—a lucky shipwreck (all hands survived) which proved the turning point within the colony’s fortune.

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