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The English tried to establish a colony at Roanoke Island in the late 1580s. Their ship had to be called back because the Spanish were amassing an armada to invade England, and when it and its crew came back to Roanoke, their colony was no more. There were some carvings in tree bark that said CROATOAN or CRO, referring to a nearby island, but nobody knows for sure what happened.

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