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17. Plus the locals were pretty fierce warriors

Reply to Crowman2009 (Reply #11)

Wed Oct 20, 2021, 06:53 PM

Oct 2021

They ran off the Vikings. The English settlements arrived about 100 years after the Spanish. The Spanish brought germs with them that wiped out at least 70% of the population. That and that Powhatan was old and tired of fighting (and the pandemic you know) so he let Jamestown go. They had the worst spot you could imagine so he figured there was little chance they’d make it.

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