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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Amidas , Philip , 1550 -1618 (search)
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Raleigh , Sir Walter 1552 - (search)
Roanoke Island
Was discovered by Amidas and Barlow in July, 1584, and taken possession of in the name of Queen Elizabeth.
These navigators spent several weeks in explorations of that island and Pamlico and Albemarle sounds, and in trafficking with the natives.
The people, wrote the mariners, were most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as lived after
Map of Roanoke Island. the manner of the Golden Age.
They were hospitably entertained by the mother three brigades, commanded respectively by Gens. J. G. Foster, J. L. Reno, and J. G. Parke.
The fleet was divided into two columns for action, intrusted respectively to the care of Commanders S. F. Hazard and S. C. Rowan.
Its destination was Pamlico Sound, through Hatteras Inlet, and its chief object was the capture of Roanoke Island, which the Confederates had strongly fortified with batteries which commanded the sounds on each side of it. There was also a fortified camp that extended across