Roanoke Colony Research Paper

Uncommon to what you might have interpreted, starting off a colony isn't as easy a task as it might seem. The Roanoke Colony started, with a lack of better words, chaotic. The expedition started with many people but the most famous would be Sir Walter Raleigh and John White. For starters, Sir Walter Raleigh, along with his half-brother, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, had a shared passion for adventure and colonization sought by the queen. With their recognized passion as the queen at the time, Queen Elizabeth I granted them a six-year grant to explore and conquer the unclaimed land of North America. This voyage took two attempts, with the first having them turn back midway due to complications and the second killing Sir Gilbert due to his known nature of being reckless. Sir Raleigh later decided to …show more content…
They left on three ships to bring a report of the colony back to England and to also bring back more supplies. On August 27, 1587, they left to go back to England, never to see the colony alive ever again. The Queen of England had been in a war with the Spanish and once White and his fleet returned to England there was a ban on all naval ships from leaving port. If this ban had never happened, White and his fleet would have been able to return as planned in March 1588. Although there was a ban, the commander of this entire colony, Raleigh, managed to arrange a two-ship relief mission for the colony, reportedly from the article it was three months ahead of the Spanish Armada, but the ships were too weak to go against the Spanish and they had to later retreat to England. They would fail to send out more relief boats for the colony until March 1590 with four ships finally making it back to the Roanoke colony. The ships were filled with no more settlers or even supplies and reportedly were to only drop White off to the rest of the

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