Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Roanoke Island” in entry america-discoverers-of of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
...cover in that direction.
Sir Walter Raleigh, favored by the Queen, sent two ships, commanded by Philip Amidas and Arthur Barlow, to the middle regions of the North American coast.
They discovered Roanoke Island and the main near, and in honor of the unmarried Queen the whole country was named Virginia.
In 1602 Bartholomew Gosnold, sailing from England directly across the Atlantic, discovered the continent...
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† | Roanoke Island (North Carolina, United States) | 1,553 | 64 | 141 | 2 | 0 user votes |
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