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Queen Elizabeth I issued a charter allowing Raleigh to “discover, search, find out, and view such remote heathen and barbarous Lands, Countries, and territories … to have, hold, occupy, and enjoy.”
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Under Philip Amadas’s and Arthur Barlowe’s commands, two ships sailed from England on April 27, 1584
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landed on the coast of North Carolina on July 13, 1584.
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The colonists set sail on April 9, 1585.
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On July 22, 1587, John White landed on Roanoke Island with 120 men, women, and children.