14 Mai 1607 Jahr - Jamestown Settlement, Virginia

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Sailing in three small ships and armed with a charter from King James I,144 settlers left England in December 1606, hungry for gold, committed to converting "savages," and seeking to colonize the "New World."

On May 14, 1607, they reached their destination and came ashore 60 miles from the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, where they would be safe from Spanish warships. Vowing "never to leave," they named the marshy peninsula on which they had landed Jamestown.

The story of the oldest permanent English settlement in North America has been largely overshadowed by the saga of the Pilgrims, who came more than a decade later.

The original settlers were met by hostile native tribes not happy about Europeans encroaching on their land.

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