Jan 31, 2018
The kidnapping of Pocahontas ended 5 years of Powhatan-English attrition and cemented the defeat of Wahunsenaca. Then, with Dale replaced as governor, Jamestown was able to thrive with the end of martial law and the creation of a new legislative assembly. In the penultimate episode of the Jamestown series, Virginia...
Jan 24, 2018
Jamestown couldn't survive forever as an underfunded outpost full of people fighting over control of a wooden fort. When Lord Delaware came, he turned Jamestown into a military camp, with martial law. Thomas Dale expanded on his reforms, and soon Jamestown was struggling again - this time under the weight of tyranny...
Jan 17, 2018
The Sea Venture crashed in Bermuda, and over the course of 10 months its passengers built homemade ships big enough to get them to Jamestown. When they reached Virginia, they found most of the people dead of starvation, and the survivors having resorted to cannibalism to survive. When they saw they only had 13 days of...
Jan 10, 2018
Caught between hostile Powhatan and divided settlers, John Smith fought to keep Jamestown from falling apart. Then, seven ships came with dozens of settlers, no supplies and ambiguous instructions from London. Smith saw himself as the only person who could keep Virginia together, but he became the first casualty of its...
Jan 3, 2018
Newport arrived just in time to prevent Smith from being hanged, but the two clashed strongly over how to run the colony. Over the course of a year, irreparable damage was done to Jamestown, and though Smith was elected president, and the London Company followed his recommendations, it was too late to...