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The first permanent French colony in North American was founded by?

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In which period were MOST of the original British North American colonies founded?

your mother


What European country did not establish settlements in North America?

belgium


First American settlements?

The first Europeans to arrive in North America -- at least the first for whom there is solid evidence -- were Norse, traveling west from Greenland, where Erik the Red had founded a settlement around the year 985. In 1001 his son Leif is thought to have explored the northeast coast of what is now Canada and spent at least one winter there. Many European fishermen fished the waters off the northern coasts of North America and the US but did not settle there. The Spanish conquistadores explored the Southwest of what would become the US in the 1500s but did not establish permanent settlements. St. Augustine, Florida, was founded in 1565 by the Spanish. The British tried to establish a settlement in Virginia, known as Roanake, Virginia, in 1587 but the colony, known as the lost colony, did not survive. The Jamestown colony in 1607 was the first permanent British colony in North America.


Is it Saint Augustine the oldest city in North America?

Saint Augustine, Florida was not one of the first Spanish settlements in North America. The Dominican Republic, also known as Isabela Island was the very first settlement of the Spanish in North America. Many of the first Spanish settlements were in the Caribbean Sea. Saint Augustine, Florida came well after Christopher Columbus.