The True Story of the Lost Roanoke Colony Is Shocking (Full History)

The Lost Colony of Roanoke is said to be one of the biggest mysteries in American history. In 1587, 118 English men, women and children were left on Roanoke Island. When John White returned three years later, they were gone, leaving only the word CROATOAN carved into a post. In this full history of Roanoke, we follow the story from Spain’s grip on the New World to Walter Raleigh’s expeditions, Ralph Lane’s war with Chief Wingina, the birth of Virginia Dare, and the search for survivors from Jamestown. Using the eyewitness words of John White, Ralph Lane and Arthur Barlowe, we uncover what really happened to England’s first colony in America and the lost colonists of Roanoke. Music - CO.AG - The Edge of Silence 06 CO.AG - From the Darkness CO.AG - My Sins Will Destroy the World. SOURCES Primary Accounts - Arthur Barlowe, The First Voyage Made to the Coasts of America (1584) - Anonymous, Journal of the Tiger, Grenville's Voyage (1585) - Ralph Lane, Account of the Colony at Roanoke (1586) - Thomas Harriot, A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588) - Walter Bigges, A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage (1589) - John White, Journal of the 1587 Voyage - John White, Narrative of the 1590 Voyage - John White, Letter to Richard Hakluyt (1593) - Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations (1589, 1598-1600) Spanish Sources - Juan de la Bandera, Relation of the Juan Pardo Expeditions (1566-1568) - Luis de Quiros and Juan Baptista de Segura, Letter from Ajacan (1570) - Juan Rogel, Relation of the Ajacan Mission (1572) - Spanish reports of Vicente Gonzalez's Chesapeake search (1588) Jamestown and Later Accounts - John Smith, A True Relation (1608) - William Strachey, The Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania (c. 1612) - Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes (1625) - John Lawson, A New Voyage to Carolina (1709) Science and Archaeology - David Stahle et al., "The Lost Colony and Jamestown Droughts," Science (1998) - Mark Horton and the Croatoan Archaeological Project, Cape Creek site, Hatteras Island - Charles Ewen, East Carolina University (critique of the Hatteras finds) - First Colony Foundation and the British Museum, "Site X" and John White's La Virginea Pars map (2012) Reference Collection - David Beers Quinn, ed., The Roanoke Voyages, 1584-1590 (Hakluyt Society, 1955)