The Establishment of Jamestown: Staving Off Death in England's First Permanent American Settlement
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Please make a video about Bar Lev Line, costing around $300 million in 1973.
You should do a show on Charleston, SC USA and Denmark Vessey! I’m a big fan of all your channels!
Europeans had no clue that oysters were around and the settlers didn’t know much about what is easily harvested the good old hunter gatherer way.
You do realize that "Central America" is a sub-region of North America, right? Also, yes, you can discover something that is known to others or already exists - so long as you didn't know about it, you've discovered it.
Ideas for other shows: Roman aqueducts, Atlantic convoys of the Second World War, American naval production of WWII (naval strategy _is_ build strategy), US WWII tank factories (building a factory to build the parts for the factory that will build the tanks), and Brigham Young's settlements throughout Western America and Canada. And for kicks and giggles, you could do one on what it cost the British Empire to build one of their First Rate warships (price, percentage of GDP, labor, and material).
Simon I have been asking for a video about the Noord/Zuid-Lijn in Amsterdam for a month now
I grew up in the area and have tour Historic Jamestowne. What is really crazy is seeing the replicas of the ships that crossed the ocean. I was in the USN and it can be rough in a warship, but something under a hundred feet, hat off people hat off.
@Charles Yuditsky That's indeed tiny. There's regular sails across the Atlantic and Pacific, but those boats are usually at least 30 foot. The main issue is storing enough supplies. Water takes up a lot of storage, and while you can use reverse osmosis to generate freshwater it'd be foolish to trust that on long voyages - and it uses a lot of electricity, necessitating solar, batteries or a generator, which in turn use space too.
Just finished this video to find out The History Guy just uploaded a video on the USS Jamestown. Never can get bored with these two channels
History guy's great.
Agree love them both
We need a mega projects of the basement that holds Danny.
More of a side project but I'm down, I'd watch it
Who’s Danny? Is he one of the channel crew?
@@Lady_Chalk business blaze
And Biographic on Danny
@@Lady_Chalk The person who writes the scripts for Buisness Blaze. He is also locked in the basement only to write them... Though he is fine, he has some internet and a typewriter :p
Excellent irony with the Magellan ad. Well done, Sir.
;)
As a Brit I find it fascinating learning about American history (although this is closely intertwined with our own history, this was never taught to me in school).
I understand. I am an American by my ancestry shows I am 64% English and 32% French with a little Dutch, Dane and Norwegian thrown in.
Oh, BTW, I have a friend from Suffolk who visits me occasionally with 2 young sons. I was talking about the 4th of July when the youngest one asked what that was. His mom answered “it is like ‘Bonfire Night’”. I about choked. The 2 things couldn’t be more different!!!!
No offense, Brits have an incredible amount of history, no wonder you don't know the fine details 👍🏼
@@grrriallen7192why is your ancestry relevant?
House on the Rock in Wisconsin would make a great subject for a video. Depending on how you look at it, a Megaproject, Sideproject, or maybe on Geographics? It's a fascinating place!
Love that place. The great hoarder alex Jordan
I first read it as "The Establishment of Jonestown" and thought this is going to be REALLY interesing....maybe that could be a "side project"?
Do a mega project on Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades!
Those would be better on the Geographics channel
Not necessarily, there was alot of work done there. So flip a coin
@@MotoHikes unless they want to talk about the canals, levees and land reclamation that was meant to make way for expansion of the farms and population around Okeechobee. That was a major undertaking.
Lol what? No one cares about that cesspit
Thats natural tho, better suited for geographics.
You mentioned the Massacre of 1622, but I'm bummed you didn't mention the Massacre of 1644. Around 500 settlers were killed, including my 9th great-grandparents Godfrey and Mary Ragsdale, who had come to Virginia Colony from England in 1640. Most Ragsdales in the United States are descended from their son, Godfrey Jr, who was was a baby at the time and was one of the few who was spared.
Want a cookie nigga?
The fate of invaders
Death
fascinating
@@omaryousifkamal4290we still won. Cry for me.
@@loganstroganoff1284he's crying on the trail of tears like his natives
I keep mistaking this town with psycho Jim Jones' Jonestown.
Tbh liveing in the modern day Uk feels pretty much the same as to what I imagine liveing in jonestown did.
@@milton1969able ...Really? XD
I was thinking 'Ehh what, that odd-bod, preacher ghoul!? Ahh good, it's not him!' [breathes out]
No, you don’t
same, currently writing a paper on it and I was like ?? He wants us to write about THAT? gonna be a dark paper but okay
Might I suggest the Rideau Canal as a future MP? Built in 1826. Pre-railroad era dams and locks built through the Canadian wilderness by hard labour and Scottish stone masons. 6 years, 200km, about 1000 dead. Engineering marvel of the 19th century. It's still there. It still works to this day. The town at the furthest reach of it was declared the Capital of Canada by Queen Victoria. It remains so today. - - - Bloddy excellent work on these vids! You and your team are amazing!
I live about 30 minutes from James town and take my family there probably 4 or 5 times in the summer. It’s really nice to walk around and just enjoy the day there. You can see the remade colonies and replicas of all three ships that you can walk around on.
Thank you for this video and the one on Geographics! I’m visiting Jamestown tomorrow and am happy to have the info needed to fully understand and appreciate the land.
I honestly read this as Jonestown initially... Now I'm kind of disappointed. 😅
1:10 - Chapter 1 - The 1st foreign visitors
2:25 - Chapter 2 - The roanoke colony
5:00 - Mid roll ads
6:20 - Chapter 3 - The london company
7:50 - Chapter 4 - Jamestown
8:55 - Chapter 5 - A harsh reality
10:55 - Chapter 6 - Resupply
12:10 - Chapter 7 - The starving time
14:50 - Chapter 8 - Fortunes improve
17:00 - Chapter 9 - Bacon rebellion
- Chapter 10 -
W dude helps for my school studys
Again Disney threw out all history books when they sat down and wrote the script for Pocahontas. For example, George Percy was apparently changed into Percy, the spoiled Pug who belonged to Radcliffe. Also, the settlers were depicted as rugged men of adventure.
What else would've you had them depict the settlers as?
Do you watch Disney stories for their historical accuracy?
Great Video, thx Simon
An incredible piece of history, people don’t know how close America came to simply never being created or colonized by someone else
What do you mean? Eventually, Europeans would've had it one way or the other and while some details might've been different, America would've still largely been the same European civilization it is today.
@@weedmastersrit wouldn’t it would be a completely different nation with a completely different history
@@arthurhughes-watts1180 not really, different but still from the same mold
Excellent video, Simon. Cheers -- W
FYI, The lady Elizabeth Dare of the Roanoke colony was the first to give birth in the new world. Her daughter Virginia is well documented. Just because the colony disappeared doesn't change this fact.
Suggestion for video: ”Göta kanal” a canal in Sweden which goes from one side of the country to the other.(190km)
Well now I hope it is eventually. I have so many questions but so little time to do my own research.
Great job, thank you.
I watched this as a companion to what I am reading in my US history class. One of my assignments is to read through a paper written on The Starving Time in Jamestown. Apparently, the claims of cannibalism are highly disputed with supporting narratives from both sides of that story.
Seen the Sky three part mini-series. Excellent
You have to respect this settlement
The church awarded the Americas to the Spanish and Portuguese.
Yet the English carved out USA and Canada
respect 🙌
Love your content!
My grandfather,John Rolfe, (yes, that John Rolfe), was killed during the massacre of 1622. His son, Thomas, is my ninth great grandfather.
Megaproject idea - "The Incredible Life of Danny... so far!" Parts 1 to 6
Once you finally get sick of his repeated escape attempts and put him down, then it can become a Biography
As a descendant of Governor William Bradford of the Pilgrims, videos about the early English colonists in America fascinates me. Love it!
I'd love to see a MegaProject on the Good Friday Agreement.
It cannot be underestimated just how mega an undertaking this was
I was doing my homework but this video is really well made! :D
This brought back memories of my 4th grade Virginia History class where we studied all this. I guess I was 10 years old or so. We later took a class trip to Jamestown and Williamsburg the same (school) year. Now, I live about five miles or so from Henricus, the second permanent English settlement in what would become Virginia.
Only 4th grade? We went literally every year until like 6th grade
@@tailorforeman7082 Yea. In the 5th grade we did Richmond. 6th went to Norfolk to the Navy base and air station. 7th went to DC.
Good video 👍
Damn, some of this would make a great netflix series or something.
Have always meant to take a day trip down to Jamestown, but have yet to do it. Was a school 5th grade field trip for many years, until it was my time for the trip they stopped doing it. I think because of the recession in 07-08.
Can we have a video about the Noord/Zuid-Lijn in Amsterdam? I have been asking this for a month
@Charles Yuditsky The Zuiderzee polders are very interesting too! But it’s not what I meant
@Charles Yuditsky No, Amsterdam’s new subway line, the construction went on for 15 years and a lot of things went wrong during construction
Simon, your video on the Salisbury Cathederal was awesome. But have you heard of the Salt Lake Temple in Utah? It was built by pioneer refugees in the middle of an inhospitable desert over 40 years in the mid 1800s. Once it was even buried completely underground! Currently, the foundation is being updated to make it more earthquake resistant. Check it out!
Ok Simon. THIS is your best ad transition 👏
Highly recommend going to the settlement if you are nearby. The College of William and Mary still has working excavations there and it's well taken care of. Williamsburg is close by and is even better preserved, and you can even spend the night in historic Williamsburg providing you are willing to dress for the period.
For side projects, do something in this same geographic area, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel
I was able to trace 1 ancestor back to Jamestown, VA. A John Deihl. I also traced a few ancestors back to the 1st American Rebellion, called The Bacon's Rebellion.
I’m a direct descendant of Thomas Hansford. I’m sure I have many cousins out there.
Please make a video about Bar Lev Line, costing around $300 million in 1973.
What is the Bar Lev Line?
A military defensive line.
The PLO had a line too
Not a megaprojects. Be only a cpl of billion in 2021 money. Way bigger costlier defensive lines in world.
A fascinating part of the history.
I’ve been to Jamestown on a field trip. The main archeologist for James Town lives there and he explained how they find hundreds of skeletons per year. On top of this there is a really cool museum there as well. If you are in the area I highly recommend going!
I went to the public park across the street from the James Town museum last fall and shot some video (ua-cam.com/video/IDyUdqi2QQQ/v-deo.html). It's really pretty. I'd recommend going to the park and/or the museum!
I still have a set of 5 books (with accompanying cassette tapes) called “My Fun with Reading”; each book has 3 stories (copyright 1973). The story of Tom Savage is the 1st one in Book 5.
5:37 Irony not lost on me. Landed on that spot while fast-forwarding the ad.
fascinating lecture
Great video
Although I'm from the US, I love narrowboating. With 30,000+ boats going on Great Britain's canals any chance of a video on it?
Hi Simon. As usual another interesting video. Thank you. But.....What happened to today's Business Blaze episode? I got a notification for it (but not this video. Odd.) but when I tried to watch it, it was labelled as "private". The title was: " Cashing in on Conspiracy Theories". Sounds interesting.
There was no audio on the BB video. I imagine they'll repost when it's fixed :)
Québec city's citadel and fortification would make a great mega project!
*Me wondering what day of the week it is and seeing Simon upload a new vid*
This isn't narrowing anything down ...
he usually uploads mega projects on mondays wednedays and fridays. he usuallu uploads on side projests on tuesdays thursdays and saturdays. thats how i know what day it is
At the Historic Jamestown Park there's still a chapel standing in the original triangle fort, and they're excavating all the other foundations of other buildings, where they've found things like bones with teeth marks. (The prevailing theory was the deceased were dug up)
Please do a Megaproject video on the "Big Hole" in Kimberley and the Aswan Dam in Egypt :) Thank you.
I'm stationed in Virginia got to ride my motorcycle over to the Jamestown site made for an awesome day just walking around this historically rich place
I don't want to downplay Lief Erickson as doing that 1000 years ago is pretty awesome, but it is more trivia than a turning point in history. The Vikings were never on North America for more than a couple years and nothing ever came of it. Yeah Columbus wasn't the first European, but his expedition did permanently connect the Americas with the rest of the world.
I agree. The Vikings might have discovered America but they probably thought it was just another big island like Greenland and likely any European who randomly heard about it thought the same. Columbus proved there was something there and it didn’t take very long for people to realize there was a whole lot of something there.
Could you make a video about South Florida water. Management? Aka how they drained the Everglades that allowed for the creation of Miami Florida. I know a little bit of the history but it’s impressive how they did it in the early 1900s
Good video, interesting presentation.
Can you do one on New Orleans, acquired through Jefferson Admin purchase of Louisiana (2/3 of then U.S. 18o3, from Napoleonic France but had been settled by the French earlier during 1682-1718.
I live next to Jamestown, used to be a cool place to visit but now they want to charge like $80 per person for a day pass. Absolute tipoff.
Tbh the only way I could see Roanoke disappear that quickly with no trace is if their ship sank on the way back to england or they got marooned somewhere.
I love your vids
One of my ancestors was killed in the the fighting outside Jamestown. He was one of the first doctors to come over.
I'd love an episode on the SpaceX Starship facility and program in Texas. The first ACTIVE Megaproject to be Megaproject-ed!
Suggestion if you haven’t already done it. Wright Patterson AFB. It’s long been rumored to be the “real Area 51” and has a sordid past. Love your stuff!✌🏻
Would be cool to see a video on the Confederation Bridge in Canada
So, this would be kind of controversial, and would have to come with a lot of acknowledgment like this one on the devastation colonisation and displacement caused and continues to cause to this day.
But would you consider doing the first fleet and initial settlement of Australia? It’s actually very interesting for how they ‘chose’ people, basic attempts at biosecurity, the voyage itself, then a people attempting to live somewhere completely unlike anywhere they’d ever experienced, from climate to flora and fauna. Plus tensions between the government, military, convicts, and free settlers.
please do a video about the Spanish american colonies, it's an overshadowed part of history that needs more attention.
I am related to the Tatums, Lee, & Burchett families who were early. Tatum came aboutc1619 as a fairly young man
I think a video on project ice worm would be pretty cool
I live in the area where jamestown was, can attest that its a swamp, and the summers are brutal
Something I like to point out: Columbus was not thought of as crazy for thinking the Earth was round. Aristotle knew the Earth was round. Muslims had been making globes for centuries by the time of Columbus. The only issue is that Columbus (and plenty of other scholars of the time) simply thought Japan was far closer to Europe than it is. People in Europe didn't really know how big Asia was. Columbus didn't think he was in Japan or India, he thought he was in an as-yet undiscovered (by Europeans) part of Asia.
Do a megaproject on how your on so many channels!
I have visited the Three Gorges Dam in China. I think most of the viewers of this channel would enjoy a video about this dam.
Hello Simon please can you do a mega projects on the RNLI and also one on one 9f there most arduous rescues the Forrest Hall rescue of 1899 look it up you'll be amazed
You gotta do the space shuttle!
That was surprisingly good I do say
Hello , I’m watching your videos since you where on the previous channel, I’m Norbert a young man with a company, PrintToys, I’m writing a comment because I believe that my company is a Megaproject, what makes me to say that it is the capability of young director to think that my company is going to build ecosystems! :))
Would love to see an MP on the introduction of the Euro.
Surely the changing of the differing currencies of a multitude of countries was a grand undertaking in many ways.
Do a megaprojects on Tenochtitlan the Aztec capital built in the middle of a lake.
How about a video about how an ocean going ship can sail all the way to Lake Superior.
Do a mega project on vegas? Thriving city in the middle of the desert? Seems mega. If not at least side project
Simon, Londinium would be great! Roman London. It was quite an ambitious project like a lot of Rome's colonial cities.
Suggested video: Ripple Rock. Not sure if that would qualify as a megaproject, or geographics, but to quote wikipedia "The explosion was noted as one of the largest non-nuclear planned explosions on record" But a video about obliterating an underwater mountain seems like a good watch.
I knew most of this, I just wanted to hear Simon tell the story
Contrary to most people's belief, the Spanish at Saint Augustine were NOT the first European colony north of Mexico. French Huguenots started Fort Caroline in what is now Jacksonville, Florida on June 22, 1564, more than a year before the founding of St. Augustine. So why is Fort Caroline and the French forgotten? Because the whole purpose of St. Augustine was to give the Spanish a base from which to destroy the French colony -- which they did in September of 1565.
Great video! I was just at Jamestown 3 days ago and your description is excellent!
Why is this considered a Mega Project and not a side project? Seems like the whole venture was half hearted until much later.
It feels big somehow. Important in history somehow.
My first thought was, yeah, it makes sense it’s in Megaprojects, given the level of technology and the obstacles to overcome. Also, I think Simon’s right in his post below. It was historic in that it was a foothold that once secured guaranteed the English expansion into North America. The colony could be expanded with the knowledge that a failure would be a failure of the expansion and not the colony. And any new colonies further north and south would know they had a safe haven and trading partner at most hundreds of miles away and not the thousands back to England.
Simon, the way you described Percy was not what I'm conditioned to hear you say on BB. Hahaha.
Well done, Sir. You only have a little typo in the title. (Starving)
Mega project idea on the Tokyo flood program???
Megaprojects idea the Plimoth Colony in Massachusetts Bay or the settling of Manhattan.
History of the Mississippi River flood control/levies in/around New Orleans, and the Katrina aftermath.
My paternal 12th great grandfather landed in Jamestown in 1619.... He was killed in an Indian attack in 1642.... I've always been fascinated with this subject.
Could you a video on Deep Water Horizon? or the BP oil spill?
A mega project episode on the naval arms race between Britain and Germany could be interesting ?
more about the vikings in North America would be interesting! No Ikea adverts please!
LOVE FROM CANADA! Rideau Canal and river system for MEGA PROJECTS! Francis "Peggy" Pegahmagabow for Biographics! Who doesnt love a great war sniper and this guy is the best of the best! Vote Canada!
Regina's original and 2000s Big Dig cost more and way bigger than Rideau Canal. Redug out BOTH lakes and entire creek system bwahaha.! Both aren't megaprojects. 👍🤓🇨🇦
@@terryarmbruster7986 are you talking about that little lake in regina that they took down a few meters? the Rideau Canal is 202km long and was built in the 1820s... do some research before you post dumb sh*t
Wow, you managed the whole story without mentionning Pocahontas! :P
Very interesting subject, you could also have mentionnend the Maine colony of Popham established the same year, but it was abandoned after just a year because the noble in charge inherited...
Future subject idea; The first Successful european colony of Quebec (attempted 1535, established 1608) that kicked off New France and is the reason why 8 millions of us still speak french to this day. ;)
This is like a refresher course for me. If I tell anyone anything about history then I get called crazy. I live in GA. When I was a kid everyone knew and loved history here. Georgia's mado was, " those who forget history are doomed to repeat it". What happened to my state? I think it's an effort to keep a kind of slavery going. Someone needs to do a sixty minutes on GA. Things are super weird here and I can't really figure out why from the inside. Does anyone have an objective view of why my states' inhabitants are...the way they are?
Georgia is nothing but stolen Cherokee land. The Supreme Court even ruled in their favor but Andrew Jackson had his little jihad with the Indian removal act and thus today you learn you profit from ceasing of indigenous lands.
it would have been a mega project to establish a new colony but unfortunately they were thinking too small and all the earlier settlers perished for the lack of proper planning. Good tell Simon