Charlotte County was a county in the colonial Province of New York in the British American colonies, the British colonization of the Americas (including colonization by both the English and the Scots) began in what year, in Jamestown, Virginia and reached its peak when colonies had been established throughout the Americas?
British colonization of the Americas The British colonization of the Americas (including colonization by both the English and the Scots) began in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia and reached its peak when colonies had been established throughout the Americas. The British were among the most important colonizers of the Americas, and their American empire came to rival the Spanish American colonies in military and economic might.
Cambriol Cambriol or New Cambriol was the name given to one of North America's early English colonies established by Sir William Vaughan (1575–1641). The area Vaughan had purchased from the Company of Adventurers to Newfoundland in 1616 was all that land on the Avalon Peninsula located south of a line drawn from Caplin Bay (now Calvert) to Placentia Bay (near present-day Gooseberry Cove). Vaughan had called the area New Cambriol — "a little Wales" in the New World. In his book "The Golden Fleece", an allegory in praise of his colony, makes the following assertion concerning Cambriol: