Settling in Roanoke (1585-1590), Roanoke is an island in the North Carolina coastline, enclosed by dangerous sandbars and a very sterile soil for agriculture. It was the place chosen for the English to create a stable colony in American territory, unfortunately, it ended in the most spectacular of the failures.
In 1585 Sir Walter Raleigh an adventurer and explorer, received an approval from Queen Elizabeth I of England to establish a colony in North America. Due to the constant battle between England and Spain to see who ended up dominating the America continent. It was a race for power.
Sir Raleigh, in 1585 arrived in Roanoke founding the first colony on behalf of England, but this attempt to settle in the area brought him numerous conflicts with the native people of Roanoke, and he had to return to England. …show more content…
The situation became so complicated that White left again for England at the end of 1587, to ask for help and reinforcements that could guarantee the success of the colony, leaving the group of 116 Englishmen on the island. However, things would not be so simple for him either. The Anglo-Spanish War (between 1585 and 1604) and bad weather conditions delayed the shipment of that supply fleet for three years, and by the time White managed to return to Roanoke, a totally unexpected scenario was found.
There was no one there. Not a soul, the wooden constructions had been dismantled, and although White's men searched for the settlers everywhere, they were not able to find them. They only discovered two clues of what could have happened to that hundred people: a pole, in which someone had recorded the word Croatoan (the Indian tribe with which the settlers had a good relationship), and three letters, CRO, recorded in a tree. Nothing else. Until this day this is the one of the most mysterious with no explanation episodes of the history of the New