3:59 “The Spanish fleet had to turn back, heading for the Netherlands” … Sails in the opposite direction of the Netherlands From what I understand the English actually trapped the Armada in the North Sea, forcing them to sail around Scotland through it’s treacherous conditions, shipwrecking most of their ships.
Do you know what is funny about this? Most of those ships were just transports, the Felicisima Armada ( real name not invencible) has less than 21 ships available or equiped for naval warfare
@@zamirroa yep, apparently the ships were carrying horses, and all the support that entails, hardly any "troops" equipped for an invasion. maybe that's why they had to get to "The Netherlands" to pick up some people? the winner always "rights" the history.
And, how did English colonize America? We saw Jamestown surviving and then suddenly, pop, thirteen colonies. Great effort, really, I learned more about this topic from some games, you missed entire colonization process.
It's fascinating to me that the England vs Spain rivalry lead to this. they took their battle to another continent entirely. England took the north and spain took the south. And you can see from linguistic influence in the continent. the north is English speaking, and the south american countries are Spanish mostly and some Portugese.
northamerica 2 of 3 parts of usa was part of the spanish empire and in there is no official language , The mos spoken language spoken on american continent is Espanol/
We didn't take any battle. The kingdom of Spain was there before anglosaxon. I do not know what anglosaxon put their noses every where. They are always after the Spanish
The north is not english because there is no oficial language and besides the real northamericans are indios The people who actually live in northamerica are immigrants from any shit hole of the world. .
There wasn't much of a rivalry here tbh. Spain had been exploring and colonizing both south and north America for more than 100 years already by the times England managed to found Jamestown. Also big parts of North America also speak spanish and french.
They recreated Jamestown, it’s a few miles from the original settlement. It’s well worth seeing, plan a full day for the visit. My Ancestor John Merritt emigrated to Jamestown in 1621, traveling on the “Falcon,” an Indentured ship. Also on that ship, was anyone Ancestor, Marmaduke Orde. The resulting families stayed together, and relocated together. They ultimately inter-married.
Tobacco farming may have helped in the English economic exploitation of North America, but colonization started as a means to expel numerous undesirable elements of English society... America was England's dumping ground 150 years to the founding of Australia's Botany Bay...
Most of the colonial New England immigrants were religious fundamentalists kicked out of England after starting a Civil War and wrecking havoc on the Irish population through genocide. This is the same group that probably more than any, contributed to the foundations of what would later become America. And you wonder why the U.S. is such a dogmatic place, all you need to do is look back to the people who planted the seeds of Puritanism.
this video covered one week's worth of my college class in 12 minutes, and since I'm a visual learner, this helped me out way more than any amount of tutoring.
Maybe your college distinguished between the deeds of English speaking people who crossed the ocean ... and the intent of the government / parliament. This doc is useless in making that distinction and not improving your understanding. It was the Crypto Catholic Stuart Kings who started granting Royal Charters to commodity traders ... the first sign of ENGLISH Government interest. Previously England just stole Spanish resources on the high seas. Chat with your prof.
@@godlovesyou1995 doesn't make sense within the context tho, if England's navy attacked Scotland you wouldn't say "The British attacked the British", also wales was in the process of being fully incorporated into England at the time.
@@finngregory3599 England and Scotland were not United at this time,it wasn’t until Queen Elizabeth died and was replace by king James of Scotland,that the the term British started being used.
I live but a few miles away from Jamestown. It’s always been fairly rural up until the last decade or two, which is pretty amazing considering it’s the building block of the United States. It’s really sad to watch that area become an urbanized part of society. It’s now totally surrounded by housing developments.
Interesting the NOVA area is spreading, maybe they are catching that. But just because it was the first colony doesn't mean it was the most efficient place to place a settlement. I think at colonizing process the ideal is the place where a river met the ocean or better yet a bay by the ocean that was easier to protect. That way ships coming from England can enter the port at the mouth of the river and go further inland.
_"If it had not been for the newfound tobacco industry in the original colony, it's likely that the English would have never been able to colonize North America permanently."_ I think that's way too big a leap. The French started their permanent Quebec colony only a year after Virginia with no tobacco in sight, depending on the fur trade instead. And that's how the northern English colonies got their start. Very little tobacco was ever grown north of Maryland, and was never needed. The Plymouth colony banned it. Side note: Virginia's tobacco plantations didn't cultivate the tobacco of the local natives. What they grew was tobacco from the Spanish Caribbean, which was stronger and tasted better. Virginia's advantage was there was far more land to reolocate to after tobacco farming ruined the local soil, whereas the islands still needed to be able to raise crops to feed themselves.
There were so many facts wrong with this entire video I doubt any of this can be trusted as even the basics to understand the colonization by first the English and then the rest of Great Britain. A total waste of time.
The topic is “English” not French colonization. Tobacco saved Virginia and therefor English colonization efforts. Remember it was a private company, the Virginia Company, not the crown that drive colonization. If the company had collapsed with Jamestown then the Plymouth Company would not have been revived later to settle the north and English colonization efforts would likely have dried up. This would have changed the course of history as Spanish, French and Dutch settlements would have likely taken over what became the original United States.
@@Zen-sx5io look up the book Roanoke. It's written by a lady that is X secret service and she did some excellent research in modern times. Not kidding, all the higher ups actually knew where the colonists were but to this day the exact location has not been identified because it was not perfectly mapped out. The natives loved copper and the colonists that were there knew how to procure it. Seriously this channel needs to do an entire series on that book. It's a real eyeopener.
Let's not forget the 13th and 14th British colonies, both in Florida and originally colonized by Spain. St. Augustine, the oldest colonial city of any European country (1565) was the capital of British East Florida. Pensacola was the capital of British West Florida, whose territory went all the way to the Mississippi River and bordered Spanish Louisiana. The longest siege of the American Revolutionary War was at Pensacola, when in 1781 the Spanish, under General Bernardo de Galvez, rid the British from the Gulf Coast, immensely aiding the American Revolutionary War effort.
In reflecting on this, the first attempted English colonizations fell short in part for the type of men they sent. The first to arrive were adventurers, military men and commercial sailors. These guys didn't have the required survivals skills of being farmers or fishermen. Even with Jamestown, the skill set of those who arrived was poor at best. When your choice of colonists is derived from those that were failing in your home country, lack of opportunity in their native land may not have been the only failing they suffered from.
@@chrisparnham Oh really? If you missed my point, the men sent over lacked the skills to survive in a land foreign to them. They couldn't grow or capture food. Were uneducated in the ways, language or customs of the existing inhabitants. They lacked accepted leadership, and few of the settlers displayed any leadership in their own conduct. Given the situation they were in, if it was dropped on either you or I, I doubt either of us would survive either. And your analysis of why the colony failed? Bad Karma? Do share.
@@cdjhyoung well maybe I was harsh in my judgment and when you elaborated in your reply it made more sense but the implication that they were failures in their country of origin and therefore destined to fail as colonists I feel was also harsh and not true. They were skilled in lots of ways, managed to build a village, a fort, and even built artillery placements for cannons to protect themselves. When their leader left to get more colonists to assist them further they fell ill to various illnesses which they weren't prepared for and many of them died. It wasn't because they were failures that they died or the colony almost came to an early end but the inevitable consequence of encountering new viruses and the shortage in their starting numbers.
@@chrisparnham I'll grant the disease did much of the work to destroy the colony and no amount of planning could have prevented it from happening. Disease is also what clear the way for Europeans to settle the New England area so it cut both ways.
I would be more worried about what those 1.2 billion people from Central and south America who would love nothing more then to take the US over considering how you stole their land back in the day now that they have sided with the BRICS Nations. along with all the Chinese military aged men being snuck in on your wide open southern border, Not to mention the Russians, Chinese and Muslims who have the brains, money, military manpower and technical expertise to destroy the Divided gender bender states of America...You are too blind to see your own country being destroyed from within....The American Eagle never was to good at seeing what is going on under their own nose, but sure see's great far away...Better focus on turning little boys into girls and gender bender politics while the BRICS Nations get ready to give us a rude wake up call...Our super power days are finished and our dollar is dead. The Democratic traitors will see to it.. You suckers got played and do not even know who is really playing you or calling the shots. Your glory days of being a barbaric warmonger regime and enslaving the world are long gone... Divide and Conquer is working like a charm on the dumbed down selfish sheep of America that is now the world's immigration dumping ground that focuses on turning little boys into little girls. The world is laughing at us....DIVIDED BY RACE, CLASS, CULTURE, GENDER BENDER POLITICS, POLITCAL PARITES AND BELIEFS, NEIGHBORHOODS, SOCIAL STATUS, NEIGHBORHOODS AND STATES... WELCOME TO DOG EAT DOG AND EVERY PACK OF WOLVES FOR THEMSELVES... AMERICA SOLD ITS PEOPLE OUT LONG AGO FOR MONEY AND THE LIFE OF RICHES...SUCKERS. You all are just pawns being prepped for the slaughter.. America has been taken over from within and the dumbed down sheep are none the wiser...
also for their audacity to colonize and drive away the natives from their own land after they had helped the british survive due to their lack of survival skills 😃
Spain, France, and Great Britain? I think you forgot a very important part, namely the Netherlands. There are still many Dutch influences to discover. Especially in New York (New Amsterdam).
This video is really weak. The Dutch influence was significant and the English colonization has important different structure of colonization than Spain that relied on self owned farming, rule of law, education and free markets.
@@jamesderrickson2581 Also, there were 14 colonies originally, Nova Scotia was the only colony to stay loyal to Great Britain, and is therefore left out of American colonial history.
Half the Plymouth Colony died the first year, but the rest survived and struggled on. When the Puritans arrived who were much better equipped then the Pilgrims, talented in building log homes, blacksmithing and farming in general. They were also more educated and brought a strong Protestant work ethic and their towns increased as they adjusted to the New Land.
Three of the men on the Mayflower Bradford, Brewster, and Richard Warren are my great grandfathers. Many of the original settlers were Puritan you are correct some were considered “Strangers” bc they did not accept Puritanism.
And that is NOT England colonizing. The English were Empire shy at that time. They wanted to contain the settlement to the coast because they did NOT want to pay for defence. The deeds of English people who sail away are NOT agents of British policy. Yes later they will assume the titles of companies... some of which became Crown corporations. OH .... and regret it.
@Jose Ortiz I Recommend you read about the Protestant Reformation in Europe. Protestantism is based on the Basic Teachings of Jesus Christ. Reading one of the more modern versions of the Bible will answer a lot of your questions. You Tube has information on this subject if you are really interested.
This isn't a video on how the English colonised America, this is a video about the early attempts at colonising by the English on the eastern coast of North America. It immediately skips from the founding of Jamestown to the Thirteen Colonies, with no mention of Canada or the Caribbean. "America" is the name of the entire landmass, and they couldn't have colonised the United States as that didn't exist at the time. Interesting for what it covers, but it misses out a lot.
Modern Canadian land wasn’t even colonized by the British until after the American Revolutionary War. All of what is modern Canada now, were French colonies.
@@jhutchyboy1 maybe Newfoundland, yes, but Nova Scotia was French. Rupert's land was what you call the Hudson's Bay Company. But the HBC was a British poaching company that poached furs on French settlements, which led to many wars with france. So only Newfoundland....
@@jhutchyboy1 Claimed, not colonized. Ruperts land at its height had like 6,000 residents in the 1800s. And those other colonies happened after the one in America (which is a country not a continent)
Philip II - King of Spain and Portugal (With all its possessions in Africa and Asia), King of Naples and Sicily, Duke of Milan, Lord of the Netherlands, King of the Americas and the Philippines.. sent the Spanish Armada to the Port of Dunkirk to embark some companies of Spanish Tercios and have them crossed over the English channel. When these ships passed by the English coast, they came across English ships which refused to engage in battle. Although Spanish ships presented battle, English withdrew time and time again. Spanish ships then successfully arrived in Dunkirk where they also fought off Dutch rebels. When General Don Alexander Farnese Duke of Parma, failed to show up with his Tercios as convened, the Spanish naval fleet had to circumnavigate the British Isles, as they had little gun powder left. Had they known they'd be facing a storm, they would've preferred to fight the English. Although there were various skirmishes in the channel, the primary objective of the Spanish Armada was to arrive at the Port of Dunkirk, which surely was a huge relief for English ships ‘guarding’ the channel. If the primary objective had been a direct invasion, the English navy would've not been able to stop it. "By 12 August, the English expedition was exhausted and, unable to continue, it headed for the coast. To justify his withdrawal, Commander Chief -Lord Admiral Howard obliged his captains to sign a memorandum in which they gave their agreement to call off the pursuit" (Kelsey, Sir Francis Drake, p. 411). Yes, this is an excerpt which confirms the English could no longer maintain their position at sea, thus the English ships did not pursue the Spanish, which in turn shows the English navy did not defeat the Spanish Armada. Spanish Armada was swept away by a storm in 1588. A year after, an even larger massive armada led by Sir Pirate Francis Drake and Sir John Norreys was sent by Elizabeth I to take advantage of the Spanish vulnerability... "The English Armada: The Greatest Naval Disaster in English History" (Luis Gorrochategui, 2018).
@@jesusmolanes8718 “It’s likely they don’t know about the English armada” and what about the failure of the second and third Spanish armadas, no one knows about those! If there’s a forgotten part of the armada story it’s not the returning English one. It’s the two more failed ones by Spain.
@@archivesoffantasy5560 Olvidais "english armada " 1589, olvidais esto tambien, estos britanicos olvidadn todas sus derrotas, jajajaja, son como niños..........................es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalla_de_Cornualles#:~:text=La%20batalla%20de%20Cornualles%2C%20del,ha%20invadido%20territorios%20de%20Inglaterra.
Martin's 100 as I understand it was an English trading post just outside of Jamestown in the early 1600s . In 1622 a massacre took place by a local native tribe. I have ancestors on both sides of my family who were Virginia colonists . Some from France by way of England ,some from Ireland , others English
In the 1600ds the English didn‘t call it the colonies but the plantations. As your video lines out plantation America was in fact an economic project and its conflicts were a direct result of competition for ressources between plantation owners, other plantation owners and the natives.
The land that Jamestown is on was with the tribe of the Chickahominy. My 3rd great grandmother was of this tribe. The books say that Powatan tribe says it gained power over the land just south of the James river north to the Potomac river. If you look up the actualy tribe that lived on that land north of the James river. It was the Chickahominy . Jusst because one person dies an leaves you land doesnt mean you are of those people.
Normally great videos but a HUGE jump from fledging Jamestown to suddenly having 13 Colonies. As an Australian I think we know much more about our Colonial history. Most American history seems to go - Mayflower then War of Independence.
That's what you learn when you don't get schooled within the country about which you're being taught. It might be that you're too focused on that extensive, criminal heritage of yours. It's a 12 1/2-minute video; what were you expecting, the history-book version? You can see how long the video is before viewing; so, if you want more detail, it's easy enough to avoid videos like this - that is, if you don't have the intelligence of the average convict.
This was in the late 16th Century when The Netherlands was somewhere in the south of France. It moved north since then, and the Dutch became good at speed skating, but that chapter of history is told in another one of these great videos.
Britain was a colonial power that competed with other colonial powers, fought with them made treaties with them, and consolidate its dominion with these treaties. Brits were an absolute superpower once and made the foundation of superpower in upcoming ages :)
Not really. Remember the Spanish had massive and populated provinces in America by 1600, while the Brits were just establishing settlements. Remember also that the extent of British colonization was just Thirteen Colonies confined to the east coast before USA fought for independence, while Spain stretched from Argentina to Florida to California and Louisiana. The British Empire was more in Asia and Africa than the American continent.
Indeed, Britain was had the largest empire by land mass, we truly were the rulers of the world. Now we are a shadow of our once selves. As the saying goes "every empire falls and new ones emerge"
@@versenelol5083 Thats total bullshit lmao. Britain had many island colonies in the Caribbean and Central and South America. And Britain had colonies in all of North America
@@JJaqn05 Lmao. The Thirteen Colonies is confined to the eastern coast of America before their independence. Spain had Florida all the way to San Francisco as well as Louisiana, won over by USA during Spanish-Mexico War. Fact: The British did not command the Americas. It was the Spanish followed by the Americans.
The English had a second colonization effort, through Hudson's Bay, not even mentioned in this video. The Hudson's Bay Company at one time governed huge tracts of North America, including what is now Washington State, Oregon, and Northern California. The description of the British fight with the Armada is also not very accurate. In general, I believe viewers would be wise to check any assertion here before accepting it as factual.
English colonization was on another level. Today’s Americans try to claim themselves to be another European nationality like Irish or Italian. But the 400 years since the Anglos first stepped in America, I think it’s a cooler story.
today's americans do what? um, no we don't. american is nationality, not an ethnicity. we do not claim to be europeans, especially with the large numbers of asians, africans, and mexicans/south americans who live in the US. please stop making stuff up.
@@scruffytube5169 I know plenty of people who claim to be “ethnically Irish” because they had an Irish great grandfather. Not taking into consideration that that is 1/8 great grandparents. Meaning they would be 1/8 Irish yet claim they are “ethnically Irish” which is stupid.
@@bilbohob7179 huh? where does it say anything about "first"? do you think the creator of the video doesn't know that ponce de leon landed in what is now florida long before the british formed the jamestown colony?? and why are you replying to this comment anyway?
History is full of small events but have big impact... who knows such a generous help from the natives could turn the world to where we are right now...
Well, technically Pocahontas was pretty much kidnapped, forced into mariage, and died of illness in England... Disney is a poor teacher of history. Also, the original 1607 Jamestown site was abandoned 40 years after it's founding, as it was a very bad, marshy area.
I think kidnapped is a little harsh . Disney gets it wrong and the Pop history gets it wrong. Relationships with the natives were still decent . The English still relied heavily on the Natives for survival , Pocahontas was taken to England as a hostage but in the traditional Roman since of the word . She was well treated but was unhappy ( I would too , having to leave warm and sunny Eastern Virginia for the dirty and foggy England ) . In the beginning the English settlers treated the Natives as equals but equally in a medieval since of the word . They were brutal in warfare but so were the natives.
@@PeterPan54167 Point taken. Then again, a "hostage" forced to marry sounds like kidnapping to our 21st century understanding, and it is far from the Disney love story version. 😉
When the Jamestown colony faltered King James asked Edward Bennett to go to Virginia and with 600 colonist formed the Isle of Wight county, building the first successful venture in america.
The Spanish Armada did not turn back it passed right through the Channel harried by Drake and his fleet and made port in the Spanish Netherlands to pick up an army to invade England. But fire ships in the night scattered the Spanish fleet and prevailing winds forced them to sail north and round the tip of Scotland to get home. Hence the vast number of wrecks left behind on the West Coast of Scotland and Ireland. Pretty poor research to state in your video that they were forced back with a picture of a ship sailing Westwards down the Channel...
The land that Jamestown is on was with the tribe of the Chickahominy. My 3rd great grandmother was of this tribe. The books say that Powatan tribe says it gained power over the land just south of the James river north to the Potomac river. If you look up the actualy tribe that lived on that land north of the James river. It was the Chickahominy . Jusst because one person dies an leaves you land doesnt mean you are of those people.
not to mention the defeat of the much bigger English counter Armada the year after ... i think this guy is under the effect of been brainwashed with English TUROR Royal propaganda ... that was a total fabrication of LIES !! ha ha haa
Many Brits want to pretend they are not the same people because the US did most of the American Holocaust, and the Brits who started it want to clean their hands of the blood of their victims.
Superficial. I must have missed where you explained how the English actually were able to establish successful colonies over land that did not grow tobacco.
Nice video! Awesome information! Just a question, though. Is it proper to use the term "British" for the English Navy at the time in question of the Armada attack, since this was technically before James joined the Crowns of Scotland and England to create the Kingdom of Great Britain?
No, I think he made a mistake there. You're correct, English would be the correct term to use since Scotland and England as political entities were far from united at this point in history.
Yes, your spot on. BRITAIN did not exist as a political entity until 1707. He also ignores Wales on the map of the island of Britain. Although Wales was controlled by London at this time, it was not part of England. The border was first identified as far back as the 5th century. It is still there today.
@@RobBrennan : Forceably?! Ireland & its inhabitants have always supported Roman Catholic European powers(& the EC) against England...e.g. Spain, France, & later in history Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II & the Nazis under Adolf Hitler...Your 'president' de Valera instantly sent the condolences of the Irish to the German Embassy in April '45 after Hitler topped himself!...truly, a sad day for Ireland but a great one for Great Britain & its allies...obviously NOT in that cradle of civilisation, Dublin (former Viking slave-trading port!), or west-winded Bally-bloody-blarney! They also drove out my grandad from that damned bog - Joseph in the winter of 1918...because he had served honourably in Royal Army Medical Corps on the Western Front 1914-18 helping wounded soldiers... but I'm English to my last red cell & my fight back against the Sinn Fein madness!.Ireland has never been a united island. It was the king of Leinster, Diarmud Mac Murrough, who 'invited' the Normans in (1170), one Strongbow!...who had already 'conquered' England...to help him against his Irish rivals & enemies...& the rest is history! Have you noticed the number of Norman castles in England, Wales & Ireland, Mr Brennan? Irealnd is, and always will be, our most dedicated enemy...hence our 'rough treatment' to protect our back-door from invasion by the Pope or the violent Germans! Proud of that, are you? Go and have another dose of poteen!! (Why did the Romans call it 'Hibernia'...winter...?...because it was bleak, unforgiving & not worth a Roman candle...or a legionaire's life!).
@@hunterluxton5976 well since were getting technical i will say that it is the KINGDOM of great britain that did not exist, not Britain itself which is the name of the island
They missed out the Dutch and also the fact that timber was the original economic export. England had been denuded of trees by the end of the C16 and they needed firewood. Also amazing how many Americans do not know that tobacco was the foundation of America, and its only wealth generator, for about 100 years
Great history, dodgy geography. The Spanish retreat to the Netherlands was in the other direction. The prevailing wind didn't allow them to turn southwest. The English fleet was behind them.
Not sure if there are good thorough videos on the start of colonization in south Asia & the Americas but I would love to see you make those as well... So much of those territories troubles stem from those initial contacts. Something we should be teaching!
@@waso778 New Amsterdam - Yes. Name for the Hudson River - Yes. Massive Loan to USA via John Adams - Yes. Inhabited Manhattan Island for decades of before formal purchase/deed in 1626 - Part of the New Netherlands of the Dutch Empire. Captured by the English in 1664. Still, some of the original Dutch Fort remains on Staten Island - Fort Wardsworth Park under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Anything else? Please add more if you can. Or is that so wrong to ask?
I have visited Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown but for some reason did not remember how tobacco was the big export that initially made the colonies flourish and expand. My Dad did a genealogy back to a John Loveless who came from England in the 1700s who had settled in the southwestern part of Virginia (near Kentucky territory). My Dad's family lived in the same part of northeastern Ohio for generations that made the making of his family tree even possible, but it was his finding of a manuscript written by John Loveless and his son Samuel years later applying for war benefits for family members of the Revolution and the War of 1812 that makes his story sound like something out of the days of Daniel Boone if you take it as truth. From St. Louis
@@amirrejab7579 The same can be said for Cotton that followed as well. It's why when the Civil War broke out on the line was the wealth of the South. Those were the products and slavery was the means.
British were confident they were patient they think about the impossible and they proved the world that patience , perseverance and hard work is a force to accomplish impossible..
A few critiques you keep saying British navy and British during the 1500s The correct term was English Britain the country didn't exist until 1707 Before that it was England so you say English
"How did the British colonize America" should be the title, also the highlighted countries aren't even England its Ireland, Wales and England on the map shown
As a Ugandan I must say this is quite good and elaborate. As a lover of History, I am happy to watch the documentary about the history of my country. That said, people from Buganda are called Baganda, not Bugandans😀. While y'all are yet here, you can visit Uganda, a very beautiful country. Hope to hear from someone in this comment section. Blessings.
I’m English ( I live in Essex, near London) and I wish I could have lived during the times of the first settlements. What a sight it must have been to see the endless forests that would have covered much of the continent. Such a shame that we have destroyed a lot of that now and those poor native tribes desperately trying to preserve their lands.
You may not know it, but the great plains of North America were nearly treeless, the coastal areas were well treed, but even eastern areas like Kentucky had great open spaces that didn't need to be cleared to be farmed. Today, we are replanting trees much faster than we are harvesting them, North America has lost about 20% of its open spaces in the last 50 years. I live in B.C., Canada, in the heart of big timber country You should come to B.C for a visit, we still have huge area of endless forest to see.
The Dutch founded New Amsterdam and created a city out of nothing - Many places and institutions in New York City still bear a colonial Dutch toponymy, including Brooklyn (Breukelen), Harlem (Haarlem), Wall Street (Waal Straat), The Bowery (“farm”), and Coney Island (conyne) Also Dutch families like Stuyvesant and 'van der Bilt' started their companies - England took over the city and the 3rd war between the Netherlands and England was a fact
Conflict didn't just "break out." The Jamestown colonizers threatened to kill the Powhatan if they didn't supply all the provisions they needed. And they did - killed as many women and children as they could beginning August 1609 under Thomas Gage.
The land that Jamestown is on was with the tribe of the Chickahominy. My 3rd great grandmother was of this tribe. The books say that Powatan tribe says it gained power over the land just south of the James river north to the Potomac river. If you look up the actualy tribe that lived on that land north of the James river. It was the Chickahominy . Jusst because one person dies an leaves you land doesnt mean you are of those people.
Technically, The Spanish Armada weren't defeated by the English Navy in direct combat. The harrassment played a part, but, most skirmishes ended in stalemate, the English couldn't sink a Spanish Ship and the Spanish couldn't board. It was only at the Gravellines where the fire ships, which was a last gasp attempt to disrupt the Armada made the fleet panick and cut their Anchors and completely disorganised them. That coupled with the Army in Netherlands not arriving in time or at all, made the Armada turn back via the North and Irish Sea, which decimated the Navy. In short, defeated by luck and incompetence, rather than the English.
A Strom destroyed the ships and Spain never Really recovered. As Queen Elizabeth the first said. God heard my prayers. Spain was the strongest at that time. After the fail of the Amarda, Britain took top place amd stayed there for some time
I can't even believe that just 600 years ago, Europeans did not know about the existence of a whole continent across the ocean. In these 600 years, a new nation called the Americans was born. Of course, many peoples participated in the ethnogenesis of Americans, but still the basis of the American nation is the British, Irish, Scots, Dutch, Germans, French, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Africans, Native Americans. A little later, Italians, Poles, Jews, Russians, Chinese, Japanese and many other peoples arrived in the United States. This whole mix of peoples eventually gives birth to talented people. All these talented people make America great.
>Play a random eastern europe country with a navy >No CB a random irish minor >annex >picks exploration idea >congratulations, you now can into colonialism
Yeah, it was pretty weird hearing at 5:21: "17th century is at the door and still no solid English colonies yet", in EU4 you can colonize by 1490. I guess irl they set native policy to aggresive and forgot to put 1k stacks in the provinces.
When the Spanish Armada fled, some of the fleet headed up around Scotland and came back down past Ireland to head back to Spain. Many ships were sunken in storms and failed landings. Many sailors died through a lack of provisions because they had not expected to be at sea for so long and whenever they attempted to head on land the locals attacked them fearing an invasion. The failure of the Armada was very significant in reducing Spanish naval and hence colonial power.
@@geronimocochise2033 and what’s even lesser known than the returning failed English armada is the second and third Spanish Armadas which both failed too.
The English Counter Armada was a bigger failure than the Spanish one. People try to make this incident a turning point in Spain's power which it was not, England hadn't much to do with Spain's downfall, it was the terrible absolutist Spanish Monarchy with one bad decision after another that caused it. In England the power of the Crown was begining to be monitored and limited which avoided Kings taking the whole country down with them with stupid stubborn decisions.
@@themechanictangerine “The English armada was a bigger failure Than the Spanish” only by a very small margin and the Spanish one would have replaced the English queen, whereas the English one would have only raided a Spanish coastline or two. But even if you think the returning English armada was a bigger failure than the first Spanish Armada What about the second and third Spanish armadas sent against England ? Three failed armadas is surely worse than one. I agree 1588 didn’t mark any kind of end of Spain. Incompetent rulers like you said were, then Napoleon was the real end of Spain.
Warfare between Britain and Spain aside, I think the mindset difference between Protestantism (individual responsibility, or capitalism if you want to name it) and Catholicism (group control or direction) is the deciding difference.
@Kevin Kirby Good question, but unfortunately it did not last, always the proof of the pudding. I think one of the unanswered questions about Spain, which I have not seen covered, is Queen Isabella and her significance to Spain and history. I know her husband gets all the credit, but I suspect Isabella was the one with the balls.
A small side note: New York (New Amsterdam 1614) was a colony founded by the Dutch. So no English colony. They eventually bought it from us, and renamed it New York (1664) Thats why there are citystreets with Dutch names in Manhatten.
The Dutch also colonized Delaware, settling in modern Lewes (pronounced "Lewis" for non-Delawareans). Sweden would colonize a different part of Delaware, settling at Fort Christina (now Wilmington).
A little social, geographical and political correction. England conquered NORTH America and some center America places. They never conquered the whole continent.
"the Spanish fleet had to turn back heading for the Netherlands" Ship on video is very much heading away from the Netherlands. Also that was a combined battle of the English and the Dutch, thanks to the Dutch navy blockading ports preventing the Spanish forces from combining fully with the Duke of Parma. The Spanish Armada tried to flee around Britain by trying to go around Scotland and Ireland which caused even more losses cause of storms and lost a lot of ships and men in that manner. Also important is that while it was to stop the Privateering as well, the most important reason for the Spanish armada was to try and force the English to stop their involvement in the Dutch-Spanish war for independence I know this isn't about that battle but for a history channel please just get those details right.
It was about catholicism, not so much one or the other youve mentioned.the armada was sent with the popes blessing. Privateering was already being carried out by france and holland well before drake and Spain was the vaticans right hand man. The up risings in holland might have,been a minor reason which they sorted in post war treaties, the fact was to defeat protestantism and for the dutch and english to get away from Catholic dominance. In those centuries wars wer mainly religious. But they were all influential
All was going well up to the Spanish Armada. The brits did not win a sea battle. Many of the Spanish ships were cargo ships because the plan was to use them to pass the army from the Netherlands to England. The only thing the English ships did was to create confusion and chaos (not military victory of any kind) and the storm did the rest... also there was miscommunication with the army and they were not ready when the ships were. No military victory here.
@@balkbally3502 yes that’s true, but then there’s the second and third Spanish Armadas sent against England, both failures and the most unknown part of this tale of armadas.
My mother's paternal ancestor arrived at Jamestown in 1614 at the age of 19. He paid for his own passage over and bought 150 kegs of tobacco to send back on the ship to pay for the passage of his wife and supplies he wanted. He was to receive 50 acres of land for himself and another 50 acres for his wife once she arrived but might of been screwed out of those since both were under the age of 21. There's no record of his activities at Jamestown and is eventually recorded in 1620 when attending a meeting of Friends at a tiny Quaker settlement near the Elbemarle Estuary with his pregnant wife and three young children. They might of stayed at Jamestown until he became an adult in order to get his 100 acres only to be given the worst land nobody would care to own. The colony was established in an area that the natives considered to be worthless for farming so didn't mind selling it to the English for some trade goods. The natives exchanged more crummy land for trade goods but wouldn't sell any of the better land that they used for farming. That made the colonists mad so they started taking their better land without paying the natives any compensation for it. That led to the two fighting a series of battles as the colony expanded. The colony administrators most likely rewarded the colonists that fought with some of the better land, kept the rest for themselves and doled out the rest to the newcomers. The inability to receive better land led to many new arrivals and indentured servants leaving the settlement to live with the natives in small communities of their own. The natives didn't mind them since they were a source for trade goods and services, like clearing out trees from areas that the natives wanted to farm.
The land that Jamestown is on was with the tribe of the Chickahominy. My 3rd great grandmother was of this tribe. The books say that Powatan tribe says it gained power over the land just south of the James river north to the Potomac river. If you look up the actualy tribe that lived on that land north of the James river. It was the Chickahominy . Jusst because one person dies an leaves you land doesnt mean you are of those people.
Tobacco started after a guy smuggled seeds from an exclusive Tobacco exporting country, I think Spain, to Jamestown. I was taught England had little to do with helping colonist survive, expand and exist. People voluntarily went there. Learning how to survive is how the American spirit was born. This isolation is how a culture of native colonists rose up to eventually call themselves Americans.
History cannot be changed but perspective can be,,,, so brother change your perspective,,,, how would you feel if i come to your home you welcomed me and then i kill you and take possession of your house,,,,will you be proud of me,,,,you are proud because Englishmen did it with others but if others would have done it with you you will not feel the same.
According to me the most important and famous city in the world is called New York City, not founded by England, France and Spain but by the Dutch! It is safe to say that this city played a crucial part in the development in the USA and the formation of trade hubs and public owned companies, all things the British, French and Spanish had no idea! Spain played only a very minor role, so i would make it the English, Dutch and French in that specific order! And then we still forget the Germans that moved in in bigger numbers than the British and German being the second language is the USA up to the first world war!
@@justarandomguy537 The Spanish only had sizeable settlements in the Southwest and California. They didn't try to colonize any of their claimed land to the east since they were scared to death of the native tribes that terrorized DeSoto's Expedition. That bad experience made the Spanish to limit their presence to building forts along the coast and the Mississippi River with small settlements outside their walls.
New York, more famous than Rome? London? Paris? Moscow?, I could keep going... Considering the USA hasn't existed for more than 250 years, and not a capital that really is a naive comment, LOL
The same way Vikings colonized other lands. The brits are actually descendants from the Vikings who colonized them as well as the other European countries. It was not hard when the docile native population welcomed the invaders and taught them how to plant and survive. Then the disease brought by the foreigners wiped out 3/4th of the native Amarucan people.
@MyzterE don't think they were a people but it's what the largest civilization, that stretched from the tip of South America up to current day California. The Inca, Amaruca Cu Pana, if I spell it correctly, is what Inca called the land. It translated into Land of the feathered Serpent. The story of the country being named after a obscure Italian map maker, Amerigo Vesputi, it never seemed right.
The land that Jamestown is on was with the tribe of the Chickahominy. My 3rd great grandmother was of this tribe. The books say that Powatan tribe says it gained power over the land just south of the James river north to the Potomac river. If you look up the actualy tribe that lived on that land north of the James river. It was the Chickahominy . Jusst because one person dies an leaves you land doesnt mean you are of those people.
With boats.
Technically the truth
Gunboats
Someone is going to argue with you about the difference between ships and boats. I guarantee it.
Kek, true.
Hey, I know that guy
Question 1: Can you get to India through North America? No, but at least there's beaver
Queation 2: steal the spice trade
That's not a question but the dutch did it anyways
Hey Kim I hate u
Hello Supreme Leader
You get beavers in UK lol
Not by walking now ,but 10 to 20 thousand years you could as there were lower sea levels and the ice sheets had retreated.
3:59 “The Spanish fleet had to turn back, heading for the Netherlands”
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Sails in the opposite direction of the Netherlands
From what I understand the English actually trapped the Armada in the North Sea, forcing them to sail around Scotland through it’s treacherous conditions, shipwrecking most of their ships.
Englosh had thr same fate as Japanese, protect by the weather
I thought that was hilarious too
Do you know what is funny about this? Most of those ships were just transports, the Felicisima Armada ( real name not invencible) has less than 21 ships available or equiped for naval warfare
@@zamirroa yep, apparently the ships were carrying horses, and all the support that entails, hardly any "troops" equipped for an invasion. maybe that's why they had to get to "The Netherlands" to pick up some people? the winner always "rights" the history.
Ahhh I just write this too and just swe your comment. 🤣
And, how did English colonize America? We saw Jamestown surviving and then suddenly, pop, thirteen colonies. Great effort, really, I learned more about this topic from some games, you missed entire colonization process.
To be fair, If they would have presented the hole process, the video will be 5-6 hours
@@dariusfetescu2124 Use a different title then. The Beginnings of English Colonization... or something. We didn't learn the "how" at all.
To be Fair, Colonizing America is a 3-step process:
1) Make Jamestown
2) Find Tobacco
3) 13 Colonies
@@wolfshanze5980 you forgot the tea break, between tobacco and 13 colonies.
Canada and Guyana are in America too
"Spain, France, and Great Britain"
The Netherlands: What am I, chopped Stroopwafel? *G E K O L O N I S E E R D*
GEKOLONIZEERD
GEKOLONIZEERD
Sweden and denmark too 😎👊
🤣
Ja, die Hollanders worden altijd gediscrimineerd.
It's fascinating to me that the England vs Spain rivalry lead to this. they took their battle to another continent entirely. England took the north and spain took the south. And you can see from linguistic influence in the continent. the north is English speaking, and the south american countries are Spanish mostly and some Portugese.
northamerica 2 of 3 parts of usa was part of the spanish empire and in there is no official language ,
The mos spoken language spoken on american continent is Espanol/
And that's why Canadians are weird. Their ancestors are French.
We didn't take any battle.
The kingdom of Spain was there before anglosaxon.
I do not know what anglosaxon put their noses every where.
They are always after the Spanish
The north is not english because there is no oficial language and besides the real northamericans are indios
The people who actually live in northamerica are immigrants from any shit hole of the world.
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There wasn't much of a rivalry here tbh. Spain had been exploring and colonizing both south and north America for more than 100 years already by the times England managed to found Jamestown. Also big parts of North America also speak spanish and french.
They recreated Jamestown, it’s a few miles from the original settlement. It’s well worth seeing, plan a full day for the visit. My Ancestor John Merritt emigrated to Jamestown in 1621, traveling on the “Falcon,” an Indentured ship. Also on that ship, was anyone Ancestor, Marmaduke Orde. The resulting families stayed together, and relocated together. They ultimately inter-married.
Were they fascinated with poo poo?
Just in time to reek violence on the natives.. You must be proud
@@karabomafa5609 Cry me a river snowflake
@@karabomafa5609 Cope
@The Richest Man In Babylon What violence? give an example of this violence you refer to
Tobacco farming may have helped in the English economic exploitation of North America, but colonization started as a means to expel numerous undesirable elements of English society... America was England's dumping ground 150 years to the founding of Australia's Botany Bay...
The first 3 waves of colonists were volenteers. Few were indentured slaves.
Guess that's why you mistook rugby for football
Well, many colonists were devout Christians who went there for religious reasons.
Most of the colonial New England immigrants were religious fundamentalists kicked out of England after starting a Civil War and wrecking havoc on the Irish population through genocide. This is the same group that probably more than any, contributed to the foundations of what would later become America. And you wonder why the U.S. is such a dogmatic place, all you need to do is look back to the people who planted the seeds of Puritanism.
@@W.LL1999 you say that as if it's a bad thing.... These were good people, the cream of the crop of England.
this video covered one week's worth of my college class in 12 minutes, and since I'm a visual learner, this helped me out way more than any amount of tutoring.
much easier students nowdays to learn things
Maybe your college distinguished between the deeds of English speaking people who crossed the ocean ... and the intent of the government / parliament. This doc is useless in making that distinction and not improving your understanding. It was the Crypto Catholic Stuart Kings who started granting Royal Charters to commodity traders ... the first sign of ENGLISH Government interest. Previously England just stole Spanish resources on the high seas. Chat with your prof.
@@Security848 Except proper grammar, of course! 🙄
3:29 *English Navy. English. Not British. Britain as a political entity wouldn't exist for more than a century.
*me in EU4 hitting the Form Great Britain Diplomatically button in 1515* Reality is often disappointing.
There were welsh and irish though. Also you can be british just by being from the island of britain.
@@godlovesyou1995 doesn't make sense within the context tho, if England's navy attacked Scotland you wouldn't say "The British attacked the British", also wales was in the process of being fully incorporated into England at the time.
@@finngregory3599 England and Scotland were not United at this time,it wasn’t until Queen Elizabeth died and was replace by king James of Scotland,that the the term British started being used.
@@raydawson2767 I'm aware of all that, you clearly didn't read my comment..hint i used the word "wouldn't"
I live but a few miles away from Jamestown. It’s always been fairly rural up until the last decade or two, which is pretty amazing considering it’s the building block of the United States. It’s really sad to watch that area become an urbanized part of society. It’s now totally surrounded by housing developments.
are there any Powhatan descendants today left in Virginia?
@@milekrizman probably not. All the Native American tribes on the East coast were driven West onto reservations in the mid-late 1800’s.
@@connorsanders6517 Wayne Newton is allegedly descendant of Powhatans
Interesting the NOVA area is spreading, maybe they are catching that. But just because it was the first colony doesn't mean it was the most efficient place to place a settlement. I think at colonizing process the ideal is the place where a river met the ocean or better yet a bay by the ocean that was easier to protect. That way ships coming from England can enter the port at the mouth of the river and go further inland.
maybe it should descend back to which it came? Not sure what one can expect a rural area to become, should it progress backwards?
“He who commands the sea has command of everything.”
-Themistocles
nowadays it’s probably aerospace and the internet
Said the pirates.
"unless its a war in asia"
some guy
_"If it had not been for the newfound tobacco industry in the original colony, it's likely that the English would have never been able to colonize North America permanently."_
I think that's way too big a leap. The French started their permanent Quebec colony only a year after Virginia with no tobacco in sight, depending on the fur trade instead. And that's how the northern English colonies got their start. Very little tobacco was ever grown north of Maryland, and was never needed. The Plymouth colony banned it. Side note: Virginia's tobacco plantations didn't cultivate the tobacco of the local natives. What they grew was tobacco from the Spanish Caribbean, which was stronger and tasted better. Virginia's advantage was there was far more land to reolocate to after tobacco farming ruined the local soil, whereas the islands still needed to be able to raise crops to feed themselves.
Who taught the English how to grow tobacco?🤔
There were so many facts wrong with this entire video I doubt any of this can be trusted as even the basics to understand the colonization by first the English and then the rest of Great Britain. A total waste of time.
@@chrisparnham this video is told from a Eurocentric point of view
The topic is “English” not French colonization. Tobacco saved Virginia and therefor English colonization efforts. Remember it was a private company, the Virginia Company, not the crown that drive colonization. If the company had collapsed with Jamestown then the Plymouth Company would not have been revived later to settle the north and English colonization efforts would likely have dried up. This would have changed the course of history as Spanish, French and Dutch settlements would have likely taken over what became the original United States.
english always came after the spanish.It is a fact.
none of your busineses what spanish do in america so get back to your poor isle.
The story of the lost colony of Roanoke is very interesting not gonna lie.
You didn't have to affirm you weren't lying, the mass disappearance of the colony is very fascinating.
@@Zen-sx5io look up the book Roanoke. It's written by a lady that is X secret service and she did some excellent research in modern times. Not kidding, all the higher ups actually knew where the colonists were but to this day the exact location has not been identified because it was not perfectly mapped out. The natives loved copper and the colonists that were there knew how to procure it. Seriously this channel needs to do an entire series on that book. It's a real eyeopener.
@@grenadenazi Thank you.
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@@grenadenazi The Roanoke colonists reallocated and mixed with the natives outside the reach of the English government by going their own way.
Let's not forget the 13th and 14th British colonies, both in Florida and originally colonized by Spain. St. Augustine, the oldest colonial city of any European country (1565) was the capital of British East Florida. Pensacola was the capital of British West Florida, whose territory went all the way to the Mississippi River and bordered Spanish Louisiana. The longest siege of the American Revolutionary War was at Pensacola, when in 1781 the Spanish, under General Bernardo de Galvez, rid the British from the Gulf Coast, immensely aiding the American Revolutionary War effort.
There was no Britain it was england UK didn't until 1707
@@stevenkilpatrick6397 Don't waste your breath Steven, they don't understand the difference between England and Britain.
Britain?!!
@@jaif7327 Yes Jaif Britain. What's your issue?
@@Mustaine1ify Never mind it seems steven has mentioned it too
When the Armada retreats " to the Netherlands" it heads the wrong way in the illustration..just saying
Yeah I was confused haha.
They were going the correct direction... it's just the longer route to go West to the Netherlands from there.
Those women drivers !
The information about the Spanish Armada is not true.After battles with the British navy, it moved north, not south, to the Netherlands !
What do you expect from someone who maps Wales and Ireland as part of England?
In reflecting on this, the first attempted English colonizations fell short in part for the type of men they sent. The first to arrive were adventurers, military men and commercial sailors. These guys didn't have the required survivals skills of being farmers or fishermen. Even with Jamestown, the skill set of those who arrived was poor at best. When your choice of colonists is derived from those that were failing in your home country, lack of opportunity in their native land may not have been the only failing they suffered from.
That's one of the worst analyses of the problems the first colonists faced I've ever read - well done!
@@chrisparnham Oh really? If you missed my point, the men sent over lacked the skills to survive in a land foreign to them. They couldn't grow or capture food. Were uneducated in the ways, language or customs of the existing inhabitants. They lacked accepted leadership, and few of the settlers displayed any leadership in their own conduct. Given the situation they were in, if it was dropped on either you or I, I doubt either of us would survive either.
And your analysis of why the colony failed? Bad Karma? Do share.
@@cdjhyoung well maybe I was harsh in my judgment and when you elaborated in your reply it made more sense but the implication that they were failures in their country of origin and therefore destined to fail as colonists I feel was also harsh and not true. They were skilled in lots of ways, managed to build a village, a fort, and even built artillery placements for cannons to protect themselves. When their leader left to get more colonists to assist them further they fell ill to various illnesses which they weren't prepared for and many of them died. It wasn't because they were failures that they died or the colony almost came to an early end but the inevitable consequence of encountering new viruses and the shortage in their starting numbers.
@@chrisparnham I'll grant the disease did much of the work to destroy the colony and no amount of planning could have prevented it from happening. Disease is also what clear the way for Europeans to settle the New England area so it cut both ways.
Many of these were poor rabble that the King wanted off the streets because of complaints about "the homeless"
Proud of British, their strategies, their control their management their culture their school of thoughts 👏👏👏
British left india..but left back their illegal kids like u back here
Truth.
I would be more worried about what those 1.2 billion people from Central and south America who would love nothing more then to take the US over considering how you stole their land back in the day now that they have sided with the BRICS Nations. along with all the Chinese military aged men being snuck in on your wide open southern border, Not to mention the Russians, Chinese and Muslims who have the brains, money, military manpower and technical expertise to destroy the Divided gender bender states of America...You are too blind to see your own country being destroyed from within....The American Eagle never was to good at seeing what is going on under their own nose, but sure see's great far away...Better focus on turning little boys into girls and gender bender politics while the BRICS Nations get ready to give us a rude wake up call...Our super power days are finished and our dollar is dead. The Democratic traitors will see to it.. You suckers got played and do not even know who is really playing you or calling the shots. Your glory days of being a barbaric warmonger regime and enslaving the world are long gone... Divide and Conquer is working like a charm on the dumbed down selfish sheep of America that is now the world's immigration dumping ground that focuses on turning little boys into little girls. The world is laughing at us....DIVIDED BY RACE, CLASS, CULTURE, GENDER BENDER POLITICS, POLITCAL PARITES AND BELIEFS, NEIGHBORHOODS, SOCIAL STATUS, NEIGHBORHOODS AND STATES... WELCOME TO DOG EAT DOG AND EVERY PACK OF WOLVES FOR THEMSELVES... AMERICA SOLD ITS PEOPLE OUT LONG AGO FOR MONEY AND THE LIFE OF RICHES...SUCKERS. You all are just pawns being prepped for the slaughter.. America has been taken over from within and the dumbed down sheep are none the wiser...
also for their audacity to colonize and drive away the natives from their own land after they had helped the british survive due to their lack of survival skills 😃
@@hfjireh Facts, they wanted something and they took it. respect.
by 1617 only 351 of the original 17000 colonists remained alive... I think a zero might have been added on there hahaha.
I was thinking that, 17,000 colonists at that time would have taken an enormous fleet. Think it should have been 1700.
They get so many things wrong on this channel and try to cover it up through over pronounciation
@@rebelcities8200 yes, I've noticed that too.
@@lukeclarke267 Even 1700 is a high number of colonists. Think more in terms of 700.
@@rebelcities8200 Start your own history channel then 🤷🏻♂️
Spain, France, and Great Britain? I think you forgot a very important part, namely the Netherlands. There are still many Dutch influences to discover. Especially in New York (New Amsterdam).
The Dutch didn’t do nothing. Surrendered to the Germans in a weekend. Hardly a people to conquer anything
You are correct. The Dutch were the leading naval force around this time.
This video is really weak. The Dutch influence was significant and the English colonization has important different structure of colonization than Spain that relied on self owned farming, rule of law, education and free markets.
@@jamesderrickson2581 Also, there were 14 colonies originally, Nova Scotia was the only colony to stay loyal to Great Britain, and is therefore left out of American colonial history.
Exactly. Am sure the role the Dutch played in creating the British banking system - which funded the Navy and trade - is overlooked also.
The narration and visuals are top-notch, making complex historical events easy to understand. A must-watch for any history enthusiast
i find the parallels between england and france so fascinating, even that they began colonising at the same time, in the same region
No surprise, it was the only area still not conquered by the Spaniards
@@anxeletemccolin699 or portugal
I thought France began at least half of century before England start to colonised the region
@@КуляшБектурова no they both started around 1600
@@micahistory nope, Jacque Cartier first in 1535 set up colonised America, no 1600
Half the Plymouth Colony died the first year, but the rest survived and struggled on. When the Puritans arrived who were much better equipped then the Pilgrims, talented in building log homes, blacksmithing and farming in general. They were also more educated and brought a strong Protestant work ethic and their towns increased as they adjusted to the New Land.
Three of the men on the Mayflower Bradford, Brewster, and Richard Warren are my great grandfathers. Many of the original settlers were Puritan you are correct some were considered “Strangers” bc they did not accept Puritanism.
With all due respect, 'Protestant' work ethic is a made-up term to justify superiority over the Catholics.
Strong protestant work ethic = being a traitorous, murdering group of hardasses that even the Dutch couldn't tolerate! 🙄🙄🙄
And that is NOT England colonizing. The English were Empire shy at that time. They wanted to contain the settlement to the coast because they did NOT want to pay for defence. The deeds of English people who sail away are NOT agents of British policy. Yes later they will assume the titles of companies... some of which became Crown corporations. OH .... and regret it.
@Jose Ortiz I Recommend you read about the Protestant Reformation in Europe. Protestantism is based on the Basic Teachings of Jesus Christ. Reading one of the more modern versions of the Bible will answer a lot of your questions. You Tube has information on this subject if you are really interested.
“By 1617, only 351 of the initial 17,000 colonists remained alive” 6:42
17 thousand? That number seems very high to me.
Who would ever thought the 13 colonies will become one of the most powerful counties in today’s modern world
Not really an amazing concept. Most big things start off small. Nothing exceptional about the USA's rise to power.
@@mikespearwood3914 one of the most. Massively more powerful than the next 5 powers put together. But your police forces are a bad joke
@@julianshepherd2038 "your police forces are a bad joke"??? What are "my" police forces my triggered friend???
America are only at the top because of slave labour
@@rayhankhan8992 not really....
I live next to the old Popham Colony. Appreciate you including it.
That's amazing! Thanks for watching, consider to subscribe 🙂
Are you an English/British-American?
LOVE Popham!
@@kinohoward2598 English blood though, most probably.
@@fishinwidow35 Spinney's Restaurant.
Great video. You made this very easy to follow and retain the information your giving us. Thank you
This isn't a video on how the English colonised America, this is a video about the early attempts at colonising by the English on the eastern coast of North America. It immediately skips from the founding of Jamestown to the Thirteen Colonies, with no mention of Canada or the Caribbean. "America" is the name of the entire landmass, and they couldn't have colonised the United States as that didn't exist at the time. Interesting for what it covers, but it misses out a lot.
Modern Canadian land wasn’t even colonized by the British until after the American Revolutionary War. All of what is modern Canada now, were French colonies.
@@ekatime Hudson Bay, Rupert’s Land, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia?
@@jhutchyboy1 maybe Newfoundland, yes, but Nova Scotia was French. Rupert's land was what you call the Hudson's Bay Company. But the HBC was a British poaching company that poached furs on French settlements, which led to many wars with france. So only Newfoundland....
@@jhutchyboy1
Claimed, not colonized. Ruperts land at its height had like 6,000 residents in the 1800s. And those other colonies happened after the one in America (which is a country not a continent)
Finally a comment that actually exposes the lack of info (and the potential of misunderstanding history)
@4:03, pretty sure Netherlands is the other way..........
How do you do your cartography for these videos? Is it ArcMap and ESRI products? ...looks great btw.
Philip II - King of Spain and Portugal (With all its possessions in Africa and Asia), King of Naples and Sicily, Duke of Milan, Lord of the Netherlands, King of the Americas and the Philippines.. sent the Spanish Armada to the Port of Dunkirk to embark some companies of Spanish Tercios and have them crossed over the English channel. When these ships passed by the English coast, they came across English ships which refused to engage in battle. Although Spanish ships presented battle, English withdrew time and time again. Spanish ships then successfully arrived in Dunkirk where they also fought off Dutch rebels. When General Don Alexander Farnese Duke of Parma, failed to show up with his Tercios as convened, the Spanish naval fleet had to circumnavigate the British Isles, as they had little gun powder left. Had they known they'd be facing a storm, they would've preferred to fight the English. Although there were various skirmishes in the channel, the primary objective of the Spanish Armada was to arrive at the Port of Dunkirk, which surely was a huge relief for English ships ‘guarding’ the channel. If the primary objective had been a direct invasion, the English navy would've not been able to stop it. "By 12 August, the English expedition was exhausted and, unable to continue, it headed for the coast. To justify his withdrawal, Commander Chief -Lord Admiral Howard obliged his captains to sign a memorandum in which they gave their agreement to call off the pursuit" (Kelsey, Sir Francis Drake, p. 411). Yes, this is an excerpt which confirms the English could no longer maintain their position at sea, thus the English ships did not pursue the Spanish, which in turn shows the English navy did not defeat the Spanish Armada. Spanish Armada was swept away by a storm in 1588. A year after, an even larger massive armada led by Sir Pirate Francis Drake and Sir John Norreys was sent by Elizabeth I to take advantage of the Spanish vulnerability... "The English Armada: The Greatest Naval Disaster in English History" (Luis Gorrochategui, 2018).
Incredible
@@jesusmolanes8718
“It’s likely they don’t know about the English armada”
and what about the failure of the second and third Spanish armadas, no one knows about those! If there’s a forgotten part of the armada story it’s not the returning English one. It’s the two more failed ones by Spain.
@@jesusmolanes8718 and it’s England, not Britain. Britain versus Spain at sea is cape st Vincent & Trafalgar.
@@archivesoffantasy5560 Olvidais "english armada " 1589, olvidais esto tambien, estos britanicos olvidadn todas sus derrotas, jajajaja, son como niños..........................es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalla_de_Cornualles#:~:text=La%20batalla%20de%20Cornualles%2C%20del,ha%20invadido%20territorios%20de%20Inglaterra.
@@archivesoffantasy5560" Un Gibraltar sin tantas flores ".....en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Gulf_of_Almer%C3%ADa_(1591)
With people duh
Can’t colonise a land without colonisers
Well you are not wrong.
🤣🤣
With colonies.
Duh
Martin's 100 as I understand it was an English trading post just outside of Jamestown in the early 1600s .
In 1622 a massacre took place by a local native tribe.
I have ancestors on both sides of my family who were Virginia colonists . Some from France by way of England ,some from Ireland , others English
In the 1600ds the English didn‘t call it the colonies but the plantations. As your video lines out plantation America was in fact an economic project and its conflicts were a direct result of competition for ressources between plantation owners, other plantation owners and the natives.
Wrong.
The land that Jamestown is on was with the tribe of the Chickahominy. My 3rd great grandmother was of this tribe. The books say that Powatan tribe says it gained power over the land just south of the James river north to the Potomac river. If you look up the actualy tribe that lived on that land north of the James river. It was the Chickahominy . Jusst because one person dies an leaves you land doesnt mean you are of those people.
Normally great videos but a HUGE jump from fledging Jamestown to suddenly having 13 Colonies. As an Australian I think we know much more about our Colonial history.
Most American history seems to go - Mayflower then War of Independence.
14 Colonies - Nova Scotia is conveniently left off the list. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia_in_the_American_Revolution
Well I guess that's better than being descendents of prisoners.
this is strange to see That british white convict who called himself a Australian
Yes, pop cultural accounts of American colonial history are superficial - obviously.
That's what you learn when you don't get schooled within the country about which you're being taught.
It might be that you're too focused on that extensive, criminal heritage of yours.
It's a 12 1/2-minute video; what were you expecting, the history-book version?
You can see how long the video is before viewing; so, if you want more detail, it's easy enough to avoid videos like this - that is, if you don't have the intelligence of the average convict.
Thank you for a very nice presentation. Now one can connect the dots much easily and and understand the history of US with clarity.
The Netherlands is not in the direction you had the Armada ships heading.
It is eventually...
This was in the late 16th Century when The Netherlands was somewhere in the south of France. It moved north since then, and the Dutch became good at speed skating, but that chapter of history is told in another one of these great videos.
You give answers to questions I didn't knew I had.
Would you have a baby with bellatrix lestrange?
Britain was a colonial power that competed with other colonial powers, fought with them made treaties with them, and consolidate its dominion with these treaties. Brits were an absolute superpower once and made the foundation of superpower in upcoming ages :)
Not really. Remember the Spanish had massive and populated provinces in America by 1600, while the Brits were just establishing settlements.
Remember also that the extent of British colonization was just Thirteen Colonies confined to the east coast before USA fought for independence, while Spain stretched from Argentina to Florida to California and Louisiana.
The British Empire was more in Asia and Africa than the American continent.
Indeed, Britain was had the largest empire by land mass, we truly were the rulers of the world. Now we are a shadow of our once selves. As the saying goes "every empire falls and new ones emerge"
It was only England then there wasn't a UK until 1707
@@versenelol5083 Thats total bullshit lmao. Britain had many island colonies in the Caribbean and Central and South America. And Britain had colonies in all of North America
@@JJaqn05 Lmao. The Thirteen Colonies is confined to the eastern coast of America before their independence. Spain had Florida all the way to San Francisco as well as Louisiana, won over by USA during Spanish-Mexico War.
Fact: The British did not command the Americas. It was the Spanish followed by the Americans.
The English had a second colonization effort, through Hudson's Bay, not even mentioned in this video. The Hudson's Bay Company at one time governed huge tracts of North America, including what is now Washington State, Oregon, and Northern California.
The description of the British fight with the Armada is also not very accurate.
In general, I believe viewers would be wise to check any assertion here before accepting it as factual.
Specifically the Armada dug out around Northern Scotland and had a lot of wrecks, and were plundered by Highland chiefs.
@@tomfrazier1103 Yup. My ancestors.
Nothing about the Dutch the first ones..?
@@waso778 Good point.
English colonization was on another level. Today’s Americans try to claim themselves to be another European nationality like Irish or Italian. But the 400 years since the Anglos first stepped in America, I think it’s a cooler story.
English? The Scots-Irish played a huge part in pioneering the interior of the continent!!
today's americans do what?
um, no we don't. american is nationality, not an ethnicity.
we do not claim to be europeans, especially with the large numbers of asians, africans, and mexicans/south americans who live in the US.
please stop making stuff up.
@@scruffytube5169 I know plenty of people who claim to be “ethnically Irish” because they had an Irish great grandfather. Not taking into consideration that that is 1/8 great grandparents. Meaning they would be 1/8 Irish yet claim they are “ethnically Irish” which is stupid.
English? Umm. Not. The first were the spanishs.
@@bilbohob7179 huh? where does it say anything about "first"?
do you think the creator of the video doesn't know that ponce de leon landed in what is now florida long before the british formed the jamestown colony??
and why are you replying to this comment anyway?
History is full of small events but have big impact... who knows such a generous help from the natives could turn the world to where we are right now...
Got to be sarcasm
Well, technically Pocahontas was pretty much kidnapped, forced into mariage, and died of illness in England... Disney is a poor teacher of history.
Also, the original 1607 Jamestown site was abandoned 40 years after it's founding, as it was a very bad, marshy area.
I think kidnapped is a little harsh . Disney gets it wrong and the Pop history gets it wrong. Relationships with the natives were still decent . The English still relied heavily on the Natives for survival , Pocahontas was taken to England as a hostage but in the traditional Roman since of the word . She was well treated but was unhappy ( I would too , having to leave warm and sunny Eastern Virginia for the dirty and foggy England ) . In the beginning the English settlers treated the Natives as equals but equally in a medieval since of the word . They were brutal in warfare but so were the natives.
@@PeterPan54167 Point taken.
Then again, a "hostage" forced to marry sounds like kidnapping to our 21st century understanding, and it is far from the Disney love story version. 😉
@@brunoethier896 Also from what I remember it was an arranged marriage. Her father basically gave her away as a bride
@@PeterPan54167 Interesting to know 😅
Don't forget the harsh winter of 1609-10, when the Jamestown colonists had to resort to cannibalism.
When the Jamestown colony faltered King James asked Edward Bennett to go to Virginia and with 600 colonist formed the Isle of Wight county, building the first successful venture in america.
Yes Logan , I'm a Bennett also!
Successful yes, the first no.
The Spanish Armada did not turn back it passed right through the Channel harried by Drake and his fleet and made port in the Spanish Netherlands to pick up an army to invade England. But fire ships in the night scattered the Spanish fleet and prevailing winds forced them to sail north and round the tip of Scotland to get home. Hence the vast number of wrecks left behind on the West Coast of Scotland and Ireland. Pretty poor research to state in your video that they were forced back with a picture of a ship sailing Westwards down the Channel...
I thought exactly the same lol 🤦🏼♂️
The land that Jamestown is on was with the tribe of the Chickahominy. My 3rd great grandmother was of this tribe. The books say that Powatan tribe says it gained power over the land just south of the James river north to the Potomac river. If you look up the actualy tribe that lived on that land north of the James river. It was the Chickahominy . Jusst because one person dies an leaves you land doesnt mean you are of those people.
not to mention the defeat of the much bigger English counter Armada the year after ... i think this guy is under the effect of been brainwashed with English TUROR Royal propaganda ... that was a total fabrication of LIES !! ha ha haa
Spain and Portugal: We must share the world
Britain, France, and Nederlands: Says who?
You forget turkey
The pope in Rome.
Portugal and England is one if the oldest allies in the world
I mean wasn't the american revolution just the second english civil war if the majority of colonists were from the UK?
American civil jihad
Many Brits want to pretend they are not the same people because the US did most of the American Holocaust, and the Brits who started it want to clean their hands of the blood of their victims.
@@scintillam_dei Woke
3rd English civil war!
The part about Humphrey Gilbert in Newfoundland was particularly interesting.
Superficial. I must have missed where you explained how the English actually were able to establish successful colonies over land that did not grow tobacco.
The video does appear to have a hate England first taint...
Nice video! Awesome information! Just a question, though. Is it proper to use the term "British" for the English Navy at the time in question of the Armada attack, since this was technically before James joined the Crowns of Scotland and England to create the Kingdom of Great Britain?
No, I think he made a mistake there. You're correct, English would be the correct term to use since Scotland and England as political entities were far from united at this point in history.
Yes, your spot on. BRITAIN did not exist as a political entity until 1707. He also ignores Wales on the map of the island of Britain. Although Wales was controlled by London at this time, it was not part of England. The border was first identified as far back as the 5th century. It is still there today.
Also the map shows Ireland, England and Wales as the same political entity when Ireland did not (forcebly) join the union until 1801.
@@RobBrennan : Forceably?! Ireland & its inhabitants have always supported Roman Catholic European powers(& the EC) against England...e.g. Spain, France, & later in history Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II & the Nazis under Adolf Hitler...Your 'president' de Valera instantly sent the condolences of the Irish to the German Embassy in April '45 after Hitler topped himself!...truly, a sad day for Ireland but a great one for Great Britain & its allies...obviously NOT in that cradle of civilisation, Dublin (former Viking slave-trading port!), or west-winded Bally-bloody-blarney!
They also drove out my grandad from that damned bog - Joseph in the winter of 1918...because he had served honourably in Royal Army Medical Corps on the Western Front 1914-18 helping wounded soldiers...
but I'm English to my last red cell & my fight back against the Sinn Fein madness!.Ireland has never been a united island. It was the king of Leinster, Diarmud Mac Murrough, who 'invited' the Normans in (1170), one Strongbow!...who had already 'conquered' England...to help him against his Irish rivals & enemies...& the rest is history! Have you noticed the number of Norman castles in England, Wales & Ireland, Mr Brennan?
Irealnd is, and always will be, our most dedicated enemy...hence our 'rough treatment' to protect our back-door from invasion by the Pope or the violent Germans! Proud of that, are you? Go and have another dose of poteen!!
(Why did the Romans call it 'Hibernia'...winter...?...because it was bleak, unforgiving & not worth a Roman candle...or a legionaire's life!).
@@hunterluxton5976 well since were getting technical i will say that it is the KINGDOM of great britain that did not exist, not Britain itself which is the name of the island
"Behove" 0:40 lovely use of the Queens sir. I doth my cap.
What's the name of the background music that starts at 4:18.
Call of The North- Niklas Johansson if someone else is wondering.
Bosanska artillerija
It seems forgotten that Queen Mary of England, was, king Phillip of Spain's wife. I might be perturbed by such disrespect, shown my loving spouse.
I'm sure they consumated that love match...
Not if King James her son was black🤐
@@lawrenceturner7695 lebron James?
They missed out the Dutch and also the fact that timber was the original economic export. England had been denuded of trees by the end of the C16 and they needed firewood.
Also amazing how many Americans do not know that tobacco was the foundation of America, and its only wealth generator, for about 100 years
Great history, dodgy geography. The Spanish retreat to the Netherlands was in the other direction. The prevailing wind didn't allow them to turn southwest. The English fleet was behind them.
Not sure if there are good thorough videos on the start of colonization in south Asia & the Americas but I would love to see you make those as well... So much of those territories troubles stem from those initial contacts. Something we should be teaching!
and making distinctions between the actions of English adventurers and the actual policy of Parliament.
Where specifically in south Asia?
Great Summary.
So wrong. Dutch created US
@@waso778 New Amsterdam - Yes. Name for the Hudson River - Yes. Massive Loan to USA via John Adams - Yes. Inhabited Manhattan Island for decades of before formal purchase/deed in 1626 - Part of the New Netherlands of the Dutch Empire. Captured by the English in 1664. Still, some of the original Dutch Fort remains on Staten Island - Fort Wardsworth Park under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Anything else? Please add more if you can. Or is that so wrong to ask?
I have visited Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown but for some reason did not remember how tobacco was the big export that initially made the colonies flourish and expand. My Dad did a genealogy back to a John Loveless who came from England in the 1700s who had settled in the southwestern part of Virginia (near Kentucky territory). My Dad's family lived in the same part of northeastern Ohio for generations that made the making of his family tree even possible, but it was his finding of a manuscript written by John Loveless and his son Samuel years later applying for war benefits for family members of the Revolution and the War of 1812 that makes his story sound like something out of the days of Daniel Boone if you take it as truth. From St. Louis
WRONG
Tobacco did NOT make the Virginia colonies rich. SLAVERY did
@@amirrejab7579 The same can be said for Cotton that followed as well. It's why when the Civil War broke out on the line was the wealth of the South. Those were the products and slavery was the means.
Lies again? Ezlink Card Entertaining Children
This channel is GOLD
British were confident they were patient they think about the impossible and they proved the world that patience , perseverance and hard work is a force to accomplish impossible..
Hell, I need a smoke after this video.
Me too
so weird and interesting how the world has developed
Nice work UA community! You all def inspire me! I thank God for all of you! 🙌🏽
6:24
Yeah that’s not something we Popham’s talk about.
A few critiques you keep saying British navy and British during the 1500s
The correct term was English
Britain the country didn't exist until 1707
Before that it was England so you say English
@i-mm-o res not really
Anyone with basic geography knowledge should know the difference
England was created in 927
@@KanuniSuleyman4857 thank you captain obvious
"How did the British colonize America" should be the title, also the highlighted countries aren't even England its Ireland, Wales and England on the map shown
@scoot manke damn who s*** in your corn flakes it's okay
@scoot manke lol
Favorable, amazing, and great comment for the algorithm.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome video, please do the French next as contrast.
As a Ugandan I must say this is quite good and elaborate. As a lover of History, I am happy to watch the documentary about the history of my country. That said, people from Buganda are called Baganda, not Bugandans😀. While y'all are yet here, you can visit Uganda, a very beautiful country. Hope to hear from someone in this comment section. Blessings.
I’m English ( I live in Essex, near London) and I wish I could have lived during the times of the first settlements. What a sight it must have been to see the endless forests that would have covered much of the continent. Such a shame that we have destroyed a lot of that now and those poor native tribes desperately trying to preserve their lands.
You may not know it, but the great plains of North America were nearly treeless, the coastal areas were well treed, but even eastern areas like Kentucky had great open spaces that didn't need to be cleared to be farmed. Today, we are replanting trees much faster than we are harvesting them, North America has lost about 20% of its open spaces in the last 50 years. I live in B.C., Canada, in the heart of big timber country You should come to B.C for a visit, we still have huge area of endless forest to see.
@@nathanadrian7797 Yes, that’s true, I went to BC last year (and Whistler as well) and we loved it!
Our favourite country and city by far.
@@noisyboy87 Glad you liked it, B.C. has so much to see.
To 21st century eyes,it would be very hard, simple life,and dangerous and violent.
Sadly, you wouldn't have made it because you would had succumbed to sicknesses and diseases.
The Dutch founded New Amsterdam and created a city out of nothing - Many places and institutions in New York City still bear a colonial Dutch toponymy, including Brooklyn (Breukelen), Harlem (Haarlem), Wall Street (Waal Straat), The Bowery (“farm”), and Coney Island (conyne) Also Dutch families like Stuyvesant and 'van der Bilt' started their companies - England took over the city and the 3rd war between the Netherlands and England was a fact
I love the Netherlands
I love your videos. The subject of history has always been my favourite
Daniel Day Lewis conquered America for the English in Last of the Mohicans
He's not your scout
No, Chingachgook did when he drove his war-club into Magua's belly...
Conflict didn't just "break out." The Jamestown colonizers threatened to kill the Powhatan if they didn't supply all the provisions they needed.
And they did - killed as many women and children as they could beginning August 1609 under Thomas Gage.
It's always more complicated than that. Powhatans were flawed humans too.
The land that Jamestown is on was with the tribe of the Chickahominy. My 3rd great grandmother was of this tribe. The books say that Powatan tribe says it gained power over the land just south of the James river north to the Potomac river. If you look up the actualy tribe that lived on that land north of the James river. It was the Chickahominy . Jusst because one person dies an leaves you land doesnt mean you are of those people.
Great video
What a powerhouse we are for such a small island 🇬🇧
*were
@@JohnHazenhousen love the fact that most of the world speaks English as well
@@JamieB237 Yes, that stems from back when you _were_ a powerhouse.
@@JohnHazenhousen is there another powerhouse that has had a bigger impact than Britain? Maybe the Romans?
@@JamieB237English actually comes from Germany. It didn't even originate in England.
Technically, The Spanish Armada weren't defeated by the English Navy in direct combat. The harrassment played a part, but, most skirmishes ended in stalemate, the English couldn't sink a Spanish Ship and the Spanish couldn't board. It was only at the Gravellines where the fire ships, which was a last gasp attempt to disrupt the Armada made the fleet panick and cut their Anchors and completely disorganised them.
That coupled with the Army in Netherlands not arriving in time or at all, made the Armada turn back via the North and Irish Sea, which decimated the Navy.
In short, defeated by luck and incompetence, rather than the English.
And the English as well.
You are Irish methinks!
There was not one but three failed Spanish Armadas sent against England
A Strom destroyed the ships and Spain never Really recovered. As Queen Elizabeth the first said. God heard my prayers. Spain was the strongest at that time. After the fail of the Amarda, Britain took top place amd stayed there for some time
@@sutty8526 Lie, Great Britain ranked first after the battle of trafalgar (1805), before that they were not stronger than Spain or France.
I can't even believe that just 600 years ago, Europeans did not know about the existence of a whole continent across the ocean. In these 600 years, a new nation called the Americans was born. Of course, many peoples participated in the ethnogenesis of Americans, but still the basis of the American nation is the British, Irish, Scots, Dutch, Germans, French, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Africans, Native Americans.
A little later, Italians, Poles, Jews, Russians, Chinese, Japanese and many other peoples arrived in the United States. This whole mix of peoples eventually gives birth to talented people. All these talented people make America great.
True but you have the europeans whites thinking they are better than everyone smh 🤦🏾♂️
I had not realized that tobacco saved Jamestown.
TOBACO and COTTON..
Coming from Enslaved Africans. Do you get it now??
@@bonaventure9736 I'm pretty sure they used slaves AFTER the tobacco boom in England
@@СтефановићКараџић They definitely did
Me playing EU4:
I know exactly how...
I like to do this in EU4 with countries of Eastern Europe. It's harder but more interesting this way lol
They clicked on the province and hit colonize
@@DillonONeil and paid 2 ducats monthly for 10 years
>Play a random eastern europe country with a navy
>No CB a random irish minor
>annex
>picks exploration idea
>congratulations, you now can into colonialism
Yeah, it was pretty weird hearing at 5:21: "17th century is at the door and still no solid English colonies yet", in EU4 you can colonize by 1490. I guess irl they set native policy to aggresive and forgot to put 1k stacks in the provinces.
What software do you use?
Thank you for sharing this.
When the Spanish Armada fled, some of the fleet headed up around Scotland and came back down past Ireland to head back to Spain. Many ships were sunken in storms and failed landings. Many sailors died through a lack of provisions because they had not expected to be at sea for so long and whenever they attempted to head on land the locals attacked them fearing an invasion. The failure of the Armada was very significant in reducing Spanish naval and hence colonial power.
Spain sent three armadas against England but only the first one is really known about
The English armada was disastrous, but is lesser known in modern England.
@@geronimocochise2033 and what’s even lesser known than the returning failed English armada is the second and third Spanish Armadas which both failed too.
The English Counter Armada was a bigger failure than the Spanish one. People try to make this incident a turning point in Spain's power which it was not, England hadn't much to do with Spain's downfall, it was the terrible absolutist Spanish Monarchy with one bad decision after another that caused it. In England the power of the Crown was begining to be monitored and limited which avoided Kings taking the whole country down with them with stupid stubborn decisions.
@@themechanictangerine
“The English armada was a bigger failure Than the Spanish” only by a very small margin and the Spanish one would have replaced the English queen, whereas the English one would have only raided a Spanish coastline or two.
But even if you think the returning English armada was a bigger failure than the first Spanish Armada
What about the second and third Spanish armadas sent against England ? Three failed armadas is surely worse than one.
I agree 1588 didn’t mark any kind of end of Spain. Incompetent rulers like you said were, then Napoleon was the real end of Spain.
I love your channel keep up the great stuff
Warfare between Britain and Spain aside, I think the mindset difference between Protestantism (individual responsibility, or capitalism if you want to name it) and Catholicism (group control or direction) is the deciding difference.
@Kevin Kirby Good question, but unfortunately it did not last, always the proof of the pudding.
I think one of the unanswered questions about Spain, which I have not seen covered, is Queen Isabella and her significance to Spain and history. I know her husband gets all the credit, but I suspect Isabella was the one with the balls.
England didn’t Great Britain did shows how much knowledge you really have on the subject
Did you even watch the video?
It wasn't Great Britain until 1707
wrong
As a Native American, I am happy you used the term "Natives" instead of "Indians" Thank you.
A small side note: New York (New Amsterdam 1614) was a colony founded by the Dutch. So no English colony. They eventually bought it from us, and renamed it New York (1664)
Thats why there are citystreets with Dutch names in Manhatten.
The Dutch also colonized Delaware, settling in modern Lewes (pronounced "Lewis" for non-Delawareans). Sweden would colonize a different part of Delaware, settling at Fort Christina (now Wilmington).
@@DarDarBinks1986 interesting stuff, didn't know this.
I thought the English took it from the Dutch by force? I don't think the Dutch sold it.
A little social, geographical and political correction. England conquered NORTH America and some center America places. They never conquered the whole continent.
I learned so much. Thank you for sharing
"the Spanish fleet had to turn back heading for the Netherlands" Ship on video is very much heading away from the Netherlands.
Also that was a combined battle of the English and the Dutch, thanks to the Dutch navy blockading ports preventing the Spanish forces from combining fully with the Duke of Parma. The Spanish Armada tried to flee around Britain by trying to go around Scotland and Ireland which caused even more losses cause of storms and lost a lot of ships and men in that manner.
Also important is that while it was to stop the Privateering as well, the most important reason for the Spanish armada was to try and force the English to stop their involvement in the Dutch-Spanish war for independence
I know this isn't about that battle but for a history channel please just get those details right.
English historicians always need supervision :)
This is the problem i have with this english/American history channels, they only use source in english.
It was about catholicism, not so much one or the other youve mentioned.the armada was sent with the popes blessing. Privateering was already being carried out by france and holland well before drake and Spain was the vaticans right hand man. The up risings in holland might have,been a minor reason which they sorted in post war treaties, the fact was to defeat protestantism and for the dutch and english to get away from Catholic dominance. In those centuries wars wer mainly religious. But they were all influential
@@Trolasso_Gazpachero every countrys historians have their own agenda,
Fun Fact: 1789 the English Armada tried to invade Spain ^^
All was going well up to the Spanish Armada. The brits did not win a sea battle. Many of the Spanish ships were cargo ships because the plan was to use them to pass the army from the Netherlands to England. The only thing the English ships did was to create confusion and chaos (not military victory of any kind) and the storm did the rest... also there was miscommunication with the army and they were not ready when the ships were. No military victory here.
Ain't no body here interested in the truth?
Spain sent 3 armadas against England
And then there's the English Armada aka the Counter Armada. Absolute failure and defeat against the Spaniards.
@@balkbally3502 yes that’s true, but then there’s the second and third Spanish Armadas sent against England, both failures and the most unknown part of this tale of armadas.
@@balkbally3502 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Spanish_Armada
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_Spanish_Armada
Why is this guy enunciating so ridiculously succinctly?!
Crazy to think that one of my ancestors was one of the first to settle at Jamestown in the 1640s
Very cool. Mine landed in Virginia in 1740. Farmed tobacco.
@@evilchaperone thats aweasome its amazing home many families can trace their roots back to some of these first SMALL settlements.
1704 in Middlesex County,VA. My mom's family out of Norfolk County, England.
My mother's paternal ancestor arrived at Jamestown in 1614 at the age of 19. He paid for his own passage over and bought 150 kegs of tobacco to send back on the ship to pay for the passage of his wife and supplies he wanted. He was to receive 50 acres of land for himself and another 50 acres for his wife once she arrived but might of been screwed out of those since both were under the age of 21. There's no record of his activities at Jamestown and is eventually recorded in 1620 when attending a meeting of Friends at a tiny Quaker settlement near the Elbemarle Estuary with his pregnant wife and three young children.
They might of stayed at Jamestown until he became an adult in order to get his 100 acres only to be given the worst land nobody would care to own. The colony was established in an area that the natives considered to be worthless for farming so didn't mind selling it to the English for some trade goods. The natives exchanged more crummy land for trade goods but wouldn't sell any of the better land that they used for farming. That made the colonists mad so they started taking their better land without paying the natives any compensation for it. That led to the two fighting a series of battles as the colony expanded. The colony administrators most likely rewarded the colonists that fought with some of the better land, kept the rest for themselves and doled out the rest to the newcomers. The inability to receive better land led to many new arrivals and indentured servants leaving the settlement to live with the natives in small communities of their own. The natives didn't mind them since they were a source for trade goods and services, like clearing out trees from areas that the natives wanted to farm.
The land that Jamestown is on was with the tribe of the Chickahominy. My 3rd great grandmother was of this tribe. The books say that Powatan tribe says it gained power over the land just south of the James river north to the Potomac river. If you look up the actualy tribe that lived on that land north of the James river. It was the Chickahominy . Jusst because one person dies an leaves you land doesnt mean you are of those people.
Tobacco started after a guy smuggled seeds from an exclusive Tobacco exporting country, I think Spain, to Jamestown. I was taught England had little to do with helping colonist survive, expand and exist. People voluntarily went there. Learning how to survive is how the American spirit was born. This isolation is how a culture of native colonists rose up to eventually call themselves Americans.
I'm English and I actually feel pride in the fact that my country influenced the USA and its beginning so much. Especially the language
Englishmen literally killed natives for their profits,,, they were not human they were monsters
@@abhilashmandal8050 So did the Portuguese, French, Spanish , Dutch etc
If they did so,,,, they were also monsters
@@abhilashmandal8050 Read some history
History cannot be changed but perspective can be,,,, so brother change your perspective,,,, how would you feel if i come to your home you welcomed me and then i kill you and take possession of your house,,,,will you be proud of me,,,,you are proud because Englishmen did it with others but if others would have done it with you you will not feel the same.
According to me the most important and famous city in the world is called New York City, not founded by England, France and Spain but by the Dutch! It is safe to say that this city played a crucial part in the development in the USA and the formation of trade hubs and public owned companies, all things the British, French and Spanish had no idea! Spain played only a very minor role, so i would make it the English, Dutch and French in that specific order! And then we still forget the Germans that moved in in bigger numbers than the British and German being the second language is the USA up to the first world war!
Lol the first settlement in usa was started by the spanish , first go and learn history kid.
@@justarandomguy537 Please read first, then think and then type! I am not even claiming something close to what you are saying.
@@casadelosotte i am not replying to you man 🤦
@@justarandomguy537 The Spanish only had sizeable settlements in the Southwest and California. They didn't try to colonize any of their claimed land to the east since they were scared to death of the native tribes that terrorized DeSoto's Expedition. That bad experience made the Spanish to limit their presence to building forts along the coast and the Mississippi River with small settlements outside their walls.
New York, more famous than Rome? London? Paris? Moscow?, I could keep going... Considering the USA hasn't existed for more than 250 years, and not a capital that really is a naive comment, LOL
Thanks for this video
The same way Vikings colonized other lands. The brits are actually descendants from the Vikings who colonized them as well as the other European countries. It was not hard when the docile native population welcomed the invaders and taught them how to plant and survive. Then the disease brought by the foreigners wiped out 3/4th of the native Amarucan people.
@MyzterE don't think they were a people but it's what the largest civilization, that stretched from the tip of South America up to current day California. The Inca, Amaruca Cu Pana, if I spell it correctly, is what Inca called the land. It translated into Land of the feathered Serpent. The story of the country being named after a obscure Italian map maker, Amerigo Vesputi, it never seemed right.
Wow that’s horrible
The British were not descendants of Vikings FFS.
The land that Jamestown is on was with the tribe of the Chickahominy. My 3rd great grandmother was of this tribe. The books say that Powatan tribe says it gained power over the land just south of the James river north to the Potomac river. If you look up the actualy tribe that lived on that land north of the James river. It was the Chickahominy . Jusst because one person dies an leaves you land doesnt mean you are of those people.