English colonists establish "James Fort," which would become <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown,_Virginia" id="mwLg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jamestown, Virginia">Jamestown, Virginia</a>, the earliest permanent English settlement in the Americas.<sup about="#mwt32" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"}}' id="cite_ref-5" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_14#cite_note-5" id="mwLw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwMA">[5]</span></a></sup>
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