USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Lost Colony, early English settlement on Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina, U.S.) that mysteriously disappeared between the time of its founding (1587) and the return of the expedition’s leader (1590).

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1587, 117 English men, women and children came ashore on Roanoke Island to establish a permanent English settlement in the New World. Just three years later in 1590, when English ships returned to bring supplies, they found the island deserted with no sign of the colonists.

Detailed explanation-3: -Where was the colony located? The Roanoke Colony was located on Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina. The land was considered part of Virginia at the time. In 1584, the land of Virginia in North America was granted to Sir Walter Raleigh by Queen Elizabeth I.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the late 1500s, the English made their first attempts to settle in North America on Roanoke Island, which is off the coast of North Carolina. These first settlers ended up returning to England because of a shortage of food and Indian attacks.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Roanoke colony then became widely known as the ‘Lost Colony’. Nobody has ever discovered the final fate of the Roanoke colonists but the most likely explanation is that they were killed, sooner or later, by Native Americans in revenge for Lane’s aggression in 1585 CE.