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Posted by: moemebe 1 year, 6 months ago

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JAMESTOWN, VA. - Four hundred years ago this May, Capt. John Smith and company landed at what is now Jamestown, and the English colonies got their start. These colonies continued until 1781, when British Gen. Charles Cornwallis surrendered to combined American and French forces at nearby Yorktown and effectively ended the Revolutionary War.

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pongping1 year, 6 months ago

Jamestown is well worth the visit. And old history is still being discovered there.
Probably not one of the people who came on shore could have seen into the future at what became the United States. If they could, what would they think?
Many of them did not last the first full year. I doubt few saw that coming either.
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