The Thirteen English Colonies
English exploration of North America began with the voyages of the Italian-born navigator John Cabot (c. 1450–c. 1499), who, in 1497, reached the region that is pr...
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Earlier exploration
There were more than 500 different Indian tribal cultures that existed in North America before the first Europeans arrived. They had lived in America already thousands of years, b...
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When what we now know as America was first discovered, hundreds of years ago, colonisation was always the next step on the way to the goals of explorers. The powerful British were to succeed in their ...
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The Thirteen English Colonies
