English Exploration

• 1497: English send John Cabot – claims Newfoundland to the Chesapeake Bay.
•  English Navy was not strong enough to deal with Spanish Navy

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• %%1588- English (and storms + disease) destroy the Spanish Armada%%

  • %%Lost 60 of 130 ships.%%  
  • %%England declared a sea power%%

• 1607 – Jamestown – VA, England’s first “successful” colony and one of the earliest in the modern US.

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