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In 1586, fifteen Englishmen settled Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, to establish England’s claim to the island. The following year, 117 additional settlers, men, women, and children, arrived, only to find that the original fifteen men had disappeared without a trace. Then three years later, in 1590, an English s
