. Our country in story . MS s:°(crridse-/•• W/cotf^tfh* PENNSYLVANIA l^&&$Pi% ls-I f **• ffy**^ Valley Forge Q \ ^ J p- Valley Forge 0 \ . ~l~~MTft\ oJBiltimorej /•5ga««3 -/ ^• Stla fe-=. A PART OF THE ATLANTIC SEABOARD St. George, floating from the flagship, tells us that theseships have come from England. The three boats are presently moored near a clump oftrees close to where we are seated, and a band of somehundred men, commanded by one whom they call CaptainNewport, step on land. They promptly begin to fortifythe place against the natives by running a blockade aboutt
. Our country in story . MS s:°(crridse-/•• W/cotf^tfh* PENNSYLVANIA l^&&$Pi% ls-I f **• ffy**^ Valley Forge Q \ ^ J p- Valley Forge 0 \ . ~l~~MTft\ oJBiltimorej /•5ga««3 -/ ^• Stla fe-=. A PART OF THE ATLANTIC SEABOARD St. George, floating from the flagship, tells us that theseships have come from England. The three boats are presently moored near a clump oftrees close to where we are seated, and a band of somehundred men, commanded by one whom they call CaptainNewport, step on land. They promptly begin to fortifythe place against the natives by running a blockade aboutthe peninsula and across its narrow neck. They namethe river James and the fort Jamestown in honor of thereigning English king. Thus it came about that a part of the territory ofNorth America, which at sunrise of that May day stillbelonged to Spain, was made an English possession by 138 OUR COUNTRY IN STORY sunset of the same day, for Jamestown in Virginia wasthe first permanent English settlement in America, andwith the founding of this colony began Englands per-manent power in America. The Jamestown colony prospered but slowly for manyyears. Its first band of settlers were not the right sortof men to
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