Is everything we know about American history wrong?

Salon ^ | May 9, 2008 | Louis Bayard

[Jacob Kell]

Wasn’t the Spaniard who was in charge of the atrocity Pedro Menedez de Aviles? What happened to him?

[Straight Vermonter]

I never understood why the Canadian colonies and the British Caribbean colonies did not join in. Perhaps they did not think the chances of success were very good? If, for example, the British had been denied the port of Halifax it would have seriously hurt their war effort.

[muawiyah]

The Jamestown colony was established right at the end of a severe drought that started about 1588.

There were far more Virginia Indians in 1587 than in 1609!

[muawiyah]

Aviles probably “went native” with his heirs showing up 50 years later as “Dutch” fur traders operating under the surname “Abeel”.

[Copernicus]

I still do not understand why a credentialed historian can get away with this type phatasmagorical word picture:

It was "an impoverished and Hobbesian world," says Horwitz, "where all struggled against all for survival." A (UNNAMED,UNIDENTIFIED)Spanish traveler found one (UNNAMED,UNIDENTIFED)tribe reduced to eating spiders, worms and deer dung(IN AN UNNAMED,UNIDENTIFIED GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION AND TIME).

Best regards,

[muawiyah]

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[Copernicus]

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