View Full Version : Earlier English Colonization of North
America - NOT Roanoke January 4th, 2004, 04:02 AM In July of
1578, armed with a royal charter, Gilbert Humphrey and his half-
brother Walter Raleigh sail to America with five ships and about
150 men, women, and children. On the thirteenth night of the
trip, the small fleet of ships enter a fogbank and emerge a day
later... *note: In OTL, this fleet was scattered and forced to
return to England by a Spanish warship, which, in this ATL, it
avoids in the fogbank. Now, with the ships approaching the
continent, the colonists look forward to a new life in a new
place. In late August, the ships disembark their passengers on
the shores of Delaware Bay. The colony just may have been
founded early enough to survive through the abandonment forced
upon them in 1588 by the Spanish Armada. By the time the Armada
sets sail, the colony at Port Elizabeth has nearly 1,000
inhabitants and even a small contingent (about 75-100) Royal
soldiers. Now what happens? David S Poe