AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Close
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
<a href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-31261279_ITM" title="Facts and information about Unsteady foothold in the new world: four hundred years ago, Jamestown endured hardship and near ruin before succeeding as the first permanent English settlement in America.">Unsteady foothold in the new world: four hundred years ago, Jamestown endured hardship and near ruin before succeeding as the first permanent English settlement in America.</a>
Close
Set up an RSS feed that alerts you when new articles from The New American are available.
Frequently asked questions about RSS feeds
Unsteady foothold in the new world: four hundred years ago, Jamestown endured hardship and near ruin before succeeding as the first permanent English settlement in America.
The men of the Virginia Company had been in Virginia less than 10 weeks, having settled on a marshy spit of land along the Powhatan River they called Jamestown, when things began to go badly. Two of the three ships under the command of Christopher Newport, the Susan Constant and the Godspeed, had sailed for England on June 22, 1607, taking with them most of the colony's labor force. They left behind a completed fort but with a garrison made up mostly of unmotivated "gentlemen" and a few others equally disinclined to build homes and gather food. Scant daily rations of a half a pint of barley and wheat were not enough to move them to action. Instead of building homes, many ...
Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
For more facts and information, see all results
- The legacies of Captain John Smith.
- Magazine article from: Focus on Geography Cooper, Catherine W. June 22, 2007 700+ words
...experienced. Captain John Smith (Figure 1) played...familiar parts of the John Smith story while also expanding...thereafter. Captain John Smith was one of the original...the principals of the Virginia Company. Smith and others traveled...
- Virginia Company
- Reference information from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger January 1, 1995 700+ words
Virginia Company, joint‐...latitude, was known as the Virginia Company of London, since its...latitude, was called the Virginia Company of Plymouth, and its...king's authority. John Smith was long the actual...
- Filling in the gaps in a soldier's life: Capt. John Smith's colorful past is...
- Newspaper article from: Daily Press (Newport News, VA) November 15, 2006 700+ words
...Nicholson Nov. 15--By the time Capt. John Smith landed at Jamestown in 1607, he...to England, he became active in the Virginia Company's plans to colonize America. It...quarreled with other members of the Virginia Company and returned to England in 1609. Except...
- Price, David A. Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the...
- History: Review of New Books Cassell, Frank A. January 1, 2004 700+ words
...The familiar story of Captain John Smith and Pocahontas in early seventeenth...English and Native American. John Smith long has been a controversial...foolish. He has no praise for the Virginia Company and its early policy of seeking...
- Rethinking the Discourse of Colonialism in Economic Terms: Shakespeare's The...
- Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies CEFALU, PAUL A. January 1, 2000 700+ words
...contradiction in early modern texts such as The Tempest and John Smith's Virginia narratives.(2) Undoubtedly, recent ideology...vagabondage are reproduced in the New World, specifically how the Virginia Company attempts (but fails) to set England's landless poor to...
- Citizen soldiers: the militia: the story of America's citizen soldiers shows...
- Magazine article from: The New American Telzrow, Michael E. May 1, 2006 700+ words
...Therefore, the early colonial expeditions were led by experienced military men. Jamestown's Virginia Company employed Captain John Smith, a seasoned veteran of numerous European wars, while the Plymouth Colony relied upon Captain Miles...
- Gorges, Sir Ferdinando
- Reference information from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger January 1, 1995 700+ words
...Ferdinando (C.1566–1647), English soldier, was one of the organizers of the Virginia Company of Plymouth (1606), employed John Smith to head successive unsuccessful settlements in Maine, and himself directed commercial voyages...
- Designing cities for people. (editorial)
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Evans, Harold July 14, 1986 700+ words
...Liberty, even before Jefferson, the great knocker down and builder up, there was the Virginia Company, the private-public corporation that sent John Smith to the New World. Plan orderly and beautiful towns, it instructed its explorers...
