Excerpt from The Beginnings of English America: Sir Walter Raleigh's Settlements on Roanoke Island, 1584-1587 Cavendish, and those other glorious English sea kings of the sixteenth century, understood it well enough so far as it involved the ravaging of the coasts of Spanish colonies and the plundering of Spanish treasure ships. But Raleigh went further than this and added the feature of planting English colonies in North America. Such colonies would not only develop English commerce but would also off - set the Spanish ...
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Excerpt from The Beginnings of English America: Sir Walter Raleigh's Settlements on Roanoke Island, 1584-1587 Cavendish, and those other glorious English sea kings of the sixteenth century, understood it well enough so far as it involved the ravaging of the coasts of Spanish colonies and the plundering of Spanish treasure ships. But Raleigh went further than this and added the feature of planting English colonies in North America. Such colonies would not only develop English commerce but would also off - set the Spanish settlements in the ivest Indies, Mexico, and South America, and serve as bases of operations against them. The idea. Of planting a Protestant state in America was not original with Raleigh. The author of that master thought was the great admiral Coligny. The atrocious massacre of Co ligny's Huguenot colony in Florida by the Spaniards under the treacherous Menendez awakened among the English people fierce indignation. 'hostility to Spain was fast increasing in England, and the idea of Coligny began to be entertained by a few sagacious heads. If France could not plant a Prot estant state in America, perhaps England could. A little later we find Le Moine [a survivor Of the Huguenot colony] consulted by the gifted half brothers, Humphrey Gilbert and Walter raleigh)l It was Raleigh' s faith in the scheme and his willing ness to back his faith with his'fortune that entitles him to the first place among those who won North America for English-speaking peoples. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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