re: Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke apparently definitively solved

White didn’t search long when he returned because his ship’s anchor broke and it was prime hurricane season and the crew wanted to get back to Europe. Also he was just hitching a ride back in 1590, the captain and crew he was with had no real interest in the colony to keep looking anyway.

White went to his grave believing his family and settlers just went to live with the Natives.

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How does one even know what supplies to get when you’re gonna be gone 3 years. Man those people were crazy

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The trip was supposed to be quick (for 1580's), but England and Spain started to throw hands, and cannonballs, and this conflict delayed him from returning as scheduled. So because of major war, he was delayed a couple more years. And the rest is history.

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The trip was supposed to be quick (for 1580's), but England and Spain started to throw hands, and cannonballs, and this conflict delayed him from returning as scheduled

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He landed back in England just as news was spreading that the Spanish Hapsburg empire was assembling a massive naval fleet in preparation for an invasion of England.

Queen Elizabeth had ordered all shipping to remain in port just days prior to his arrival. England desperately needed every available ship to combat the Spanish Armada.

White did manage to secure a couple of small older vessels in early 1588 that weren’t being used in any war or defensive capacity. Unfortunately, they were barely seaworthy, and the Atlantic was extremely dangerous during that period for any English vessel. The two vessels soon became separated, both attacked by pirates, and one ended up running aground way off course in the Azores.

The Spanish Armada was famously defeated later that year, but the war raged on. Ships and voyages continued to be limited to that effort. Even though not a lot happened for nearly a year after the victory over the Armada.

England finally began deploying raiding parties and privateers to the Caribbean and other Spanish territories in Spring/Summer of 1689. Their mission was to disrupt trade, attack Spanish ports, and steal or destroy as much Spanish resources as possible.

This gave White hope because at least some English ships were once again allowed to leave port and cross the Atlantic. He still had to wait another full year before he found a way to make a return trip.

A large, well-funded English privateer expedition had room for him, but he first had to spend time in the Caribbean attacking and battling the Spanish. He spent most of that time aboard a ship that was not going anywhere near the Carolinas. He eventually rendezvoused with the right ship.

A detour to Roanoke wasn’t a priority even for that ship, but it did manage to make a stop on its way back to England. That’s why White did not stay for long, and why he only conducted a cursory search of the area, despite waiting three years to return. He wasn’t leading a resupply or rescue mission. He hitched a ride on a ship that did him a huge favor by taking him to check on the colony.

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They done went injun

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Once they go Croaton they never go back.

I mean…didn’t they literally leave a sign stating their destination which was a known backup plan?

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More than likely killed off or enslaved the men and bred TF out of the women until the genetics blended away

And thus the bizarre OT cuck fixation lives on.

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You’re an idiot if you can’t understand that’s what life was like then

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Josh Gates had an episode with the same evidence a few years ago.

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Yep. If memory serves I think the theory from that episode was that they had an especially bad storm season and/or unusually brutal cold which depleted their supplies so they took refuge with the Croatoan population they had been friendly with.

The Croatoan island (now called Cape Hatteras), where they may have fled to, was 50-60 miles away. It may also be that once they got to Croatoan, they and the tribe determined to move to the mainland for some reason. This would explain why the subsequent expedition to Croatoan found no one (not even tribe members).

Along with all this, there are some DNA markers which may indicate some members of the Lumbee are descendants from the mixing of the Roanoke colonists and Croatoans.

What I don’t get is how the Europeans and natives communicated in what seemed like a relatively advanced capacity with two languages that were completely foreign to the other.

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For the settlers, they’d already assimilated in with the natives and probably weren’t eager to upend their lives again and assimilate back with the English who’d essentially left them to fend for themselves for 3 years.

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The psychological toll these people took wouldn’t have allowed them to change allegiances at this point. They survived something no one survives statistically.

These people were straight up gangsters.

Every single one of them tough as 3 inch steel

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and bred TF out of the women

The Euros were seen as gross, smelly, and ugly compared to the native FWIW.

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If native men were turned off by white women, then that’d be the first time in history such a thing happened. Men will frick anything.