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In the late 1490s John Cabot explored and claimed a portion of eastern Canada for England. It was not, however, until 1584 that Sir Walter Ralegh and his investors sent two barks to search out a place suitable for a military bastion in the New World. They found what they considered to be an ideal location - Roanoke Island in what is now North Carolina. In 1587 a group of 117 men, women and children (boys, no girls) landed at Roanoke Island. Their fate is unknown and they became known as 'the lost colony.'

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