How did the English Colonize America?
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- How did the English Colonize America?
The foundation of one of the most powerful countries in the world today. The history of the colonization of North America is one of the most well-known formations of any country across the globe. Spain, France, and Great Britain all played crucial roles in the development of what is now the influential United States of America. Motivated by economic reasons, and trying to expand their trade network and financial power, many European Nations ventured in search of more opportunities. But, today, most people particularly remember the colonial efforts of the English above all else. So, how did the English colonize America?
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With boats.
Technically the truth
Gunboats
Someone is going to argue with you about the difference between ships and boats. I guarantee it.
Kek, true.
Hey, I know that guy
Question 1: Can you get to India through North America? No, but at least there's beaver
Queation 2: steal the spice trade
That's not a question but the dutch did it anyways
Hey Kim I hate u
Hello Supreme Leader
You get beavers in UK lol
Not by walking now ,but 10 to 20 thousand years you could as there were lower sea levels and the ice sheets had retreated.
It's fascinating to me that the England vs Spain rivalry lead to this. they took their battle to another continent entirely. England took the north and spain took the south. And you can see from linguistic influence in the continent. the north is English speaking, and the south american countries are Spanish mostly and some Portugese.
northamerica 2 of 3 parts of usa was part of the spanish empire and in there is no official language ,
The mos spoken language spoken on american continent is Espanol/
And that's why Canadians are weird. Their ancestors are French.
We didn't take any battle.
The kingdom of Spain was there before anglosaxon.
I do not know what anglosaxon put their noses every where.
They are always after the Spanish
The north is not english because there is no oficial language and besides the real northamericans are indios
The people who actually live in northamerica are immigrants from any shit hole of the world.
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There wasn't much of a rivalry here tbh. Spain had been exploring and colonizing both south and north America for more than 100 years already by the times England managed to found Jamestown. Also big parts of North America also speak spanish and french.
this video covered one week's worth of my college class in 12 minutes, and since I'm a visual learner, this helped me out way more than any amount of tutoring.
much easier students nowdays to learn things
Maybe your college distinguished between the deeds of English speaking people who crossed the ocean ... and the intent of the government / parliament. This doc is useless in making that distinction and not improving your understanding. It was the Crypto Catholic Stuart Kings who started granting Royal Charters to commodity traders ... the first sign of ENGLISH Government interest. Previously England just stole Spanish resources on the high seas. Chat with your prof.
And, how did English colonize America? We saw Jamestown surviving and then suddenly, pop, thirteen colonies. Great effort, really, I learned more about this topic from some games, you missed entire colonization process.
To be fair, If they would have presented the hole process, the video will be 5-6 hours
@@dariusfetescu2124 Use a different title then. The Beginnings of English Colonization... or something. We didn't learn the "how" at all.
To be Fair, Colonizing America is a 3-step process:
1) Make Jamestown
2) Find Tobacco
3) 13 Colonies
@@wolfshanze5980 you forgot the tea break, between tobacco and 13 colonies.
Canada and Guyana are in America too
They recreated Jamestown, it’s a few miles from the original settlement. It’s well worth seeing, plan a full day for the visit. My Ancestor John Merritt emigrated to Jamestown in 1621, traveling on the “Falcon,” an Indentured ship. Also on that ship, was anyone Ancestor, Marmaduke Orde. The resulting families stayed together, and relocated together. They ultimately inter-married.
Were they fascinated with poo poo?
Just in time to reek violence on the natives.. You must be proud
@@karabomafa5609 Cry me a river snowflake
@@karabomafa5609 Cope
@The Richest Man In Babylon What violence? give an example of this violence you refer to
Great video. You made this very easy to follow and retain the information your giving us. Thank you
“He who commands the sea has command of everything.”
-Themistocles
nowadays it’s probably aerospace and the internet
Said the pirates.
"Spain, France, and Great Britain"
The Netherlands: What am I, chopped Stroopwafel? *G E K O L O N I S E E R D*
GEKOLONIZEERD
GEKOLONIZEERD
Sweden and denmark too 😎👊
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Ja, die Hollanders worden altijd gediscrimineerd.
I live but a few miles away from Jamestown. It’s always been fairly rural up until the last decade or two, which is pretty amazing considering it’s the building block of the United States. It’s really sad to watch that area become an urbanized part of society. It’s now totally surrounded by housing developments.
are there any Powhatan descendants today left in Virginia?
@@milekrizman probably not. All the Native American tribes on the East coast were driven West onto reservations in the mid-late 1800’s.
@@connorsanders6517 Wayne Newton is allegedly descendant of Powhatans
Interesting the NOVA area is spreading, maybe they are catching that. But just because it was the first colony doesn't mean it was the most efficient place to place a settlement. I think at colonizing process the ideal is the place where a river met the ocean or better yet a bay by the ocean that was easier to protect. That way ships coming from England can enter the port at the mouth of the river and go further inland.
maybe it should descend back to which it came? Not sure what one can expect a rural area to become, should it progress backwards?
Thank you for a very nice presentation. Now one can connect the dots much easily and and understand the history of US with clarity.
3:59 “The Spanish fleet had to turn back, heading for the Netherlands”
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Sails in the opposite direction of the Netherlands
From what I understand the English actually trapped the Armada in the North Sea, forcing them to sail around Scotland through it’s treacherous conditions, shipwrecking most of their ships.
Englosh had thr same fate as Japanese, protect by the weather
I thought that was hilarious too
Do you know what is funny about this? Most of those ships were just transports, the Felicisima Armada ( real name not invencible) has less than 21 ships available or equiped for naval warfare
@@zamirroa yep, apparently the ships were carrying horses, and all the support that entails, hardly any "troops" equipped for an invasion. maybe that's why they had to get to "The Netherlands" to pick up some people? the winner always "rights" the history.
Ahhh I just write this too and just swe your comment. 🤣
The story of the lost colony of Roanoke is very interesting not gonna lie.
You didn't have to affirm you weren't lying, the mass disappearance of the colony is very fascinating.
@@Zen-sx5io look up the book Roanoke. It's written by a lady that is X secret service and she did some excellent research in modern times. Not kidding, all the higher ups actually knew where the colonists were but to this day the exact location has not been identified because it was not perfectly mapped out. The natives loved copper and the colonists that were there knew how to procure it. Seriously this channel needs to do an entire series on that book. It's a real eyeopener.
@@grenadenazi Thank you.
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@@grenadenazi The Roanoke colonists reallocated and mixed with the natives outside the reach of the English government by going their own way.
When the Armada retreats " to the Netherlands" it heads the wrong way in the illustration..just saying
Yeah I was confused haha.
They were going the correct direction... it's just the longer route to go West to the Netherlands from there.
Those women drivers !
The information about the Spanish Armada is not true.After battles with the British navy, it moved north, not south, to the Netherlands !
What do you expect from someone who maps Wales and Ireland as part of England?
I love your videos. The subject of history has always been my favourite
I learned so much. Thank you for sharing
I live next to the old Popham Colony. Appreciate you including it.
That's amazing! Thanks for watching, consider to subscribe 🙂
Are you an English/British-American?
LOVE Popham!
@@kinohoward2598 English blood though, most probably.
@@fishinwidow35 Spinney's Restaurant.
Spain, France, and Great Britain? I think you forgot a very important part, namely the Netherlands. There are still many Dutch influences to discover. Especially in New York (New Amsterdam).
The Dutch didn’t do nothing. Surrendered to the Germans in a weekend. Hardly a people to conquer anything
You are correct. The Dutch were the leading naval force around this time.
This video is really weak. The Dutch influence was significant and the English colonization has important different structure of colonization than Spain that relied on self owned farming, rule of law, education and free markets.
@@jamesderrickson2581 Also, there were 14 colonies originally, Nova Scotia was the only colony to stay loyal to Great Britain, and is therefore left out of American colonial history.
Exactly. Am sure the role the Dutch played in creating the British banking system - which funded the Navy and trade - is overlooked also.
Hello, from Massachusetts, good video for the detail, that they did cover.
Proud of British, their strategies, their control their management their culture their school of thoughts 👏👏👏
British left india..but left back their illegal kids like u back here
Truth.
I would be more worried about what those 1.2 billion people from Central and south America who would love nothing more then to take the US over considering how you stole their land back in the day now that they have sided with the BRICS Nations. along with all the Chinese military aged men being snuck in on your wide open southern border, Not to mention the Russians, Chinese and Muslims who have the brains, money, military manpower and technical expertise to destroy the Divided gender bender states of America...You are too blind to see your own country being destroyed from within....The American Eagle never was to good at seeing what is going on under their own nose, but sure see's great far away...Better focus on turning little boys into girls and gender bender politics while the BRICS Nations get ready to give us a rude wake up call...Our super power days are finished and our dollar is dead. The Democratic traitors will see to it.. You suckers got played and do not even know who is really playing you or calling the shots. Your glory days of being a barbaric warmonger regime and enslaving the world are long gone... Divide and Conquer is working like a charm on the dumbed down selfish sheep of America that is now the world's immigration dumping ground that focuses on turning little boys into little girls. The world is laughing at us....DIVIDED BY RACE, CLASS, CULTURE, GENDER BENDER POLITICS, POLITCAL PARITES AND BELIEFS, NEIGHBORHOODS, SOCIAL STATUS, NEIGHBORHOODS AND STATES... WELCOME TO DOG EAT DOG AND EVERY PACK OF WOLVES FOR THEMSELVES... AMERICA SOLD ITS PEOPLE OUT LONG AGO FOR MONEY AND THE LIFE OF RICHES...SUCKERS. You all are just pawns being prepped for the slaughter.. America has been taken over from within and the dumbed down sheep are none the wiser...
also for their audacity to colonize and drive away the natives from their own land after they had helped the british survive due to their lack of survival skills 😃
@@hfjireh Facts, they wanted something and they took it. respect.
You give answers to questions I didn't knew I had.
Would you have a baby with bellatrix lestrange?
Tobacco farming may have helped in the English economic exploitation of North America, but colonization started as a means to expel numerous undesirable elements of English society... America was England's dumping ground 150 years to the founding of Australia's Botany Bay...
The first 3 waves of colonists were volenteers. Few were indentured slaves.
Guess that's why you mistook rugby for football
Well, many colonists were devout Christians who went there for religious reasons.
Most of the colonial New England immigrants were religious fundamentalists kicked out of England after starting a Civil War and wrecking havoc on the Irish population through genocide. This is the same group that probably more than any, contributed to the foundations of what would later become America. And you wonder why the U.S. is such a dogmatic place, all you need to do is look back to the people who planted the seeds of Puritanism.
@@ginch8300 you say that as if it's a bad thing.... These were good people, the cream of the crop of England.
Martin's 100 as I understand it was an English trading post just outside of Jamestown in the early 1600s .
In 1622 a massacre took place by a local native tribe.
I have ancestors on both sides of my family who were Virginia colonists . Some from France by way of England ,some from Ireland , others English
The part about Humphrey Gilbert in Newfoundland was particularly interesting.
i find the parallels between england and france so fascinating, even that they began colonising at the same time, in the same region
No surprise, it was the only area still not conquered by the Spaniards
@@anxeletemccolin699 or portugal
I thought France began at least half of century before England start to colonised the region
@@user-dt8jw8qy6l no they both started around 1600
@@micahistory nope, Jacque Cartier first in 1535 set up colonised America, no 1600
Half the Plymouth Colony died the first year, but the rest survived and struggled on. When the Puritans arrived who were much better equipped then the Pilgrims, talented in building log homes, blacksmithing and farming in general. They were also more educated and brought a strong Protestant work ethic and their towns increased as they adjusted to the New Land.
Three of the men on the Mayflower Bradford, Brewster, and Richard Warren are my great grandfathers. Many of the original settlers were Puritan you are correct some were considered “Strangers” bc they did not accept Puritanism.
With all due respect, 'Protestant' work ethic is a made-up term to justify superiority over the Catholics.
Strong protestant work ethic = being a traitorous, murdering group of hardasses that even the Dutch couldn't tolerate! 🙄🙄🙄
And that is NOT England colonizing. The English were Empire shy at that time. They wanted to contain the settlement to the coast because they did NOT want to pay for defence. The deeds of English people who sail away are NOT agents of British policy. Yes later they will assume the titles of companies... some of which became Crown corporations. OH .... and regret it.
@Jose Ortiz I Recommend you read about the Protestant Reformation in Europe. Protestantism is based on the Basic Teachings of Jesus Christ. Reading one of the more modern versions of the Bible will answer a lot of your questions. You Tube has information on this subject if you are really interested.
Great Summary.
So wrong. Dutch created US
@@waso778 New Amsterdam - Yes. Name for the Hudson River - Yes. Massive Loan to USA via John Adams - Yes. Inhabited Manhattan Island for decades of before formal purchase/deed in 1626 - Part of the New Netherlands of the Dutch Empire. Captured by the English in 1664. Still, some of the original Dutch Fort remains on Staten Island - Fort Wardsworth Park under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Anything else? Please add more if you can. Or is that so wrong to ask?
this is what i expected from a 12 minute video and i enjoyed it. watch a longer documentary if you want more details, for people with certain critiques.
In reflecting on this, the first attempted English colonizations fell short in part for the type of men they sent. The first to arrive were adventurers, military men and commercial sailors. These guys didn't have the required survivals skills of being farmers or fishermen. Even with Jamestown, the skill set of those who arrived was poor at best. When your choice of colonists is derived from those that were failing in your home country, lack of opportunity in their native land may not have been the only failing they suffered from.
That's one of the worst analyses of the problems the first colonists faced I've ever read - well done!
@@chrisparnham Oh really? If you missed my point, the men sent over lacked the skills to survive in a land foreign to them. They couldn't grow or capture food. Were uneducated in the ways, language or customs of the existing inhabitants. They lacked accepted leadership, and few of the settlers displayed any leadership in their own conduct. Given the situation they were in, if it was dropped on either you or I, I doubt either of us would survive either.
And your analysis of why the colony failed? Bad Karma? Do share.
@@cdjhyoung well maybe I was harsh in my judgment and when you elaborated in your reply it made more sense but the implication that they were failures in their country of origin and therefore destined to fail as colonists I feel was also harsh and not true. They were skilled in lots of ways, managed to build a village, a fort, and even built artillery placements for cannons to protect themselves. When their leader left to get more colonists to assist them further they fell ill to various illnesses which they weren't prepared for and many of them died. It wasn't because they were failures that they died or the colony almost came to an early end but the inevitable consequence of encountering new viruses and the shortage in their starting numbers.
@@chrisparnham I'll grant the disease did much of the work to destroy the colony and no amount of planning could have prevented it from happening. Disease is also what clear the way for Europeans to settle the New England area so it cut both ways.
Many of these were poor rabble that the King wanted off the streets because of complaints about "the homeless"
Philip II - King of Spain and Portugal (With all its possessions in Africa and Asia), King of Naples and Sicily, Duke of Milan, Lord of the Netherlands, King of the Americas and the Philippines.. sent the Spanish Armada to the Port of Dunkirk to embark some companies of Spanish Tercios and have them crossed over the English channel. When these ships passed by the English coast, they came across English ships which refused to engage in battle. Although Spanish ships presented battle, English withdrew time and time again. Spanish ships then successfully arrived in Dunkirk where they also fought off Dutch rebels. When General Don Alexander Farnese Duke of Parma, failed to show up with his Tercios as convened, the Spanish naval fleet had to circumnavigate the British Isles, as they had little gun powder left. Had they known they'd be facing a storm, they would've preferred to fight the English. Although there were various skirmishes in the channel, the primary objective of the Spanish Armada was to arrive at the Port of Dunkirk, which surely was a huge relief for English ships ‘guarding’ the channel. If the primary objective had been a direct invasion, the English navy would've not been able to stop it. "By 12 August, the English expedition was exhausted and, unable to continue, it headed for the coast. To justify his withdrawal, Commander Chief -Lord Admiral Howard obliged his captains to sign a memorandum in which they gave their agreement to call off the pursuit" (Kelsey, Sir Francis Drake, p. 411). Yes, this is an excerpt which confirms the English could no longer maintain their position at sea, thus the English ships did not pursue the Spanish, which in turn shows the English navy did not defeat the Spanish Armada. Spanish Armada was swept away by a storm in 1588. A year after, an even larger massive armada led by Sir Pirate Francis Drake and Sir John Norreys was sent by Elizabeth I to take advantage of the Spanish vulnerability... "The English Armada: The Greatest Naval Disaster in English History" (Luis Gorrochategui, 2018).
Incredible
@@jesusmolanes8718
“It’s likely they don’t know about the English armada”
and what about the failure of the second and third Spanish armadas, no one knows about those! If there’s a forgotten part of the armada story it’s not the returning English one. It’s the two more failed ones by Spain.
@@jesusmolanes8718 and it’s England, not Britain. Britain versus Spain at sea is cape st Vincent & Trafalgar.
@@archivesoffantasy5560 Olvidais "english armada " 1589, olvidais esto tambien, estos britanicos olvidadn todas sus derrotas, jajajaja, son como niños..........................es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalla_de_Cornualles#:~:text=La%20batalla%20de%20Cornualles%2C%20del,ha%20invadido%20territorios%20de%20Inglaterra.
@@archivesoffantasy5560" Un Gibraltar sin tantas flores ".....en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Gulf_of_Almer%C3%ADa_(1591)
Thanks for this video
How do you do your cartography for these videos? Is it ArcMap and ESRI products? ...looks great btw.
_"If it had not been for the newfound tobacco industry in the original colony, it's likely that the English would have never been able to colonize North America permanently."_
I think that's way too big a leap. The French started their permanent Quebec colony only a year after Virginia with no tobacco in sight, depending on the fur trade instead. And that's how the northern English colonies got their start. Very little tobacco was ever grown north of Maryland, and was never needed. The Plymouth colony banned it. Side note: Virginia's tobacco plantations didn't cultivate the tobacco of the local natives. What they grew was tobacco from the Spanish Caribbean, which was stronger and tasted better. Virginia's advantage was there was far more land to reolocate to after tobacco farming ruined the local soil, whereas the islands still needed to be able to raise crops to feed themselves.
Who taught the English how to grow tobacco?🤔
There were so many facts wrong with this entire video I doubt any of this can be trusted as even the basics to understand the colonization by first the English and then the rest of Great Britain. A total waste of time.
@@chrisparnham this video is told from a Eurocentric point of view
The topic is “English” not French colonization. Tobacco saved Virginia and therefor English colonization efforts. Remember it was a private company, the Virginia Company, not the crown that drive colonization. If the company had collapsed with Jamestown then the Plymouth Company would not have been revived later to settle the north and English colonization efforts would likely have dried up. This would have changed the course of history as Spanish, French and Dutch settlements would have likely taken over what became the original United States.
english always came after the spanish.It is a fact.
none of your busineses what spanish do in america so get back to your poor isle.
Who would ever thought the 13 colonies will become one of the most powerful counties in today’s modern world
Not really an amazing concept. Most big things start off small. Nothing exceptional about the USA's rise to power.
@@mikespearwood3914 one of the most. Massively more powerful than the next 5 powers put together. But your police forces are a bad joke
@@julianshepherd2038 "your police forces are a bad joke"??? What are "my" police forces my triggered friend???
America are only at the top because of slave labour
@@rayhankhan8992 not really....
I love your channel keep up the great stuff
Let's not forget the 13th and 14th British colonies, both in Florida and originally colonized by Spain. St. Augustine, the oldest colonial city of any European country (1565) was the capital of British East Florida. Pensacola was the capital of British West Florida, whose territory went all the way to the Mississippi River and bordered Spanish Louisiana. The longest siege of the American Revolutionary War was at Pensacola, when in 1781 the Spanish, under General Bernardo de Galvez, rid the British from the Gulf Coast, immensely aiding the American Revolutionary War effort.
There was no Britain it was england UK didn't until 1707
@@stevenkilpatrick6397 Don't waste your breath Steven, they don't understand the difference between England and Britain.
Britain?!!
@@jaif7327 Yes Jaif Britain. What's your issue?
@@Mustaine1ify Never mind it seems steven has mentioned it too
Not sure if there are good thorough videos on the start of colonization in south Asia & the Americas but I would love to see you make those as well... So much of those territories troubles stem from those initial contacts. Something we should be teaching!
and making distinctions between the actions of English adventurers and the actual policy of Parliament.
Where specifically in south Asia?
3:29 *English Navy. English. Not British. Britain as a political entity wouldn't exist for more than a century.
*me in EU4 hitting the Form Great Britain Diplomatically button in 1515* Reality is often disappointing.
There were welsh and irish though. Also you can be british just by being from the island of britain.
@@godlovesyou1995 doesn't make sense within the context tho, if England's navy attacked Scotland you wouldn't say "The British attacked the British", also wales was in the process of being fully incorporated into England at the time.
@@finngregory3599 England and Scotland were not United at this time,it wasn’t until Queen Elizabeth died and was replace by king James of Scotland,that the the term British started being used.
@@raydawson2767 I'm aware of all that, you clearly didn't read my comment..hint i used the word "wouldn't"
"Behove" 0:40 lovely use of the Queens sir. I doth my cap.
Nice work UA community! You all def inspire me! I thank God for all of you! 🙌🏽
@4:03, pretty sure Netherlands is the other way..........
In the 1600ds the English didn‘t call it the colonies but the plantations. As your video lines out plantation America was in fact an economic project and its conflicts were a direct result of competition for ressources between plantation owners, other plantation owners and the natives.
Wrong.
The land that Jamestown is on was with the tribe of the Chickahominy. My 3rd great grandmother was of this tribe. The books say that Powatan tribe says it gained power over the land just south of the James river north to the Potomac river. If you look up the actualy tribe that lived on that land north of the James river. It was the Chickahominy . Jusst because one person dies an leaves you land doesnt mean you are of those people.
great video !!!
History is full of small events but have big impact... who knows such a generous help from the natives could turn the world to where we are right now...
Got to be sarcasm
The Netherlands is not in the direction you had the Armada ships heading.
It is eventually...
This was in the late 16th Century when The Netherlands was somewhere in the south of France. It moved north since then, and the Dutch became good at speed skating, but that chapter of history is told in another one of these great videos.
With people duh
Can’t colonise a land without colonisers
Well you are not wrong.
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With colonies.
“By 1617, only 351 of the initial 17,000 colonists remained alive” 6:42
17 thousand? That number seems very high to me.
They missed out the Dutch and also the fact that timber was the original economic export. England had been denuded of trees by the end of the C16 and they needed firewood.
Also amazing how many Americans do not know that tobacco was the foundation of America, and its only wealth generator, for about 100 years
by 1617 only 351 of the original 17000 colonists remained alive... I think a zero might have been added on there hahaha.
I was thinking that, 17,000 colonists at that time would have taken an enormous fleet. Think it should have been 1700.
They get so many things wrong on this channel and try to cover it up through over pronounciation
@@rebelcities8200 yes, I've noticed that too.
@@lukeclarke267 Even 1700 is a high number of colonists. Think more in terms of 700.
@@rebelcities8200 Start your own history channel then 🤷🏻♂️
Normally great videos but a HUGE jump from fledging Jamestown to suddenly having 13 Colonies. As an Australian I think we know much more about our Colonial history.
Most American history seems to go - Mayflower then War of Independence.
14 Colonies - Nova Scotia is conveniently left off the list. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia_in_the_American_Revolution
Well I guess that's better than being descendents of prisoners.
this is strange to see That british white convict who called himself a Australian
Yes, pop cultural accounts of American colonial history are superficial - obviously.
That's what you learn when you don't get schooled within the country about which you're being taught.
It might be that you're too focused on that extensive, criminal heritage of yours.
It's a 12 1/2-minute video; what were you expecting, the history-book version?
You can see how long the video is before viewing; so, if you want more detail, it's easy enough to avoid videos like this - that is, if you don't have the intelligence of the average convict.
Great video
which software or plugin do you use for this map video. ? i know about geoLayer ,
Nice video! Awesome information! Just a question, though. Is it proper to use the term "British" for the English Navy at the time in question of the Armada attack, since this was technically before James joined the Crowns of Scotland and England to create the Kingdom of Great Britain?
No, I think he made a mistake there. You're correct, English would be the correct term to use since Scotland and England as political entities were far from united at this point in history.
Yes, your spot on. BRITAIN did not exist as a political entity until 1707. He also ignores Wales on the map of the island of Britain. Although Wales was controlled by London at this time, it was not part of England. The border was first identified as far back as the 5th century. It is still there today.
Also the map shows Ireland, England and Wales as the same political entity when Ireland did not (forcebly) join the union until 1801.
@@RobBrennan : Forceably?! Ireland & its inhabitants have always supported Roman Catholic European powers(& the EC) against England...e.g. Spain, France, & later in history Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II & the Nazis under Adolf Hitler...Your 'president' de Valera instantly sent the condolences of the Irish to the German Embassy in April '45 after Hitler topped himself!...truly, a sad day for Ireland but a great one for Great Britain & its allies...obviously NOT in that cradle of civilisation, Dublin (former Viking slave-trading port!), or west-winded Bally-bloody-blarney!
They also drove out my grandad from that damned bog - Joseph in the winter of 1918...because he had served honourably in Royal Army Medical Corps on the Western Front 1914-18 helping wounded soldiers...
but I'm English to my last red cell & my fight back against the Sinn Fein madness!.Ireland has never been a united island. It was the king of Leinster, Diarmud Mac Murrough, who 'invited' the Normans in (1170), one Strongbow!...who had already 'conquered' England...to help him against his Irish rivals & enemies...& the rest is history! Have you noticed the number of Norman castles in England, Wales & Ireland, Mr Brennan?
Irealnd is, and always will be, our most dedicated enemy...hence our 'rough treatment' to protect our back-door from invasion by the Pope or the violent Germans! Proud of that, are you? Go and have another dose of poteen!!
(Why did the Romans call it 'Hibernia'...winter...?...because it was bleak, unforgiving & not worth a Roman candle...or a legionaire's life!).
@@hunterluxton5976 well since were getting technical i will say that it is the KINGDOM of great britain that did not exist, not Britain itself which is the name of the island
Loved it!! Cheers from Chile!!
This channel is GOLD
Is there anyway you can share how to obtain the information about the first ships. I descend from one.1604 is when the records show we first got here. Shirley whatley was his name.
This isn't a video on how the English colonised America, this is a video about the early attempts at colonising by the English on the eastern coast of North America. It immediately skips from the founding of Jamestown to the Thirteen Colonies, with no mention of Canada or the Caribbean. "America" is the name of the entire landmass, and they couldn't have colonised the United States as that didn't exist at the time. Interesting for what it covers, but it misses out a lot.
Modern Canadian land wasn’t even colonized by the British until after the American Revolutionary War. All of what is modern Canada now, were French colonies.
@@ekatime Hudson Bay, Rupert’s Land, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia?
@@jhutchyboy1 maybe Newfoundland, yes, but Nova Scotia was French. Rupert's land was what you call the Hudson's Bay Company. But the HBC was a British poaching company that poached furs on French settlements, which led to many wars with france. So only Newfoundland....
@@jhutchyboy1
Claimed, not colonized. Ruperts land at its height had like 6,000 residents in the 1800s. And those other colonies happened after the one in America (which is a country not a continent)
Finally a comment that actually exposes the lack of info (and the potential of misunderstanding history)
Favorable, amazing, and great comment for the algorithm.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Conflict didn't just "break out." The Jamestown colonizers threatened to kill the Powhatan if they didn't supply all the provisions they needed.
And they did - killed as many women and children as they could beginning August 1609 under Thomas Gage.
It's always more complicated than that. Powhatans were flawed humans too.
The land that Jamestown is on was with the tribe of the Chickahominy. My 3rd great grandmother was of this tribe. The books say that Powatan tribe says it gained power over the land just south of the James river north to the Potomac river. If you look up the actualy tribe that lived on that land north of the James river. It was the Chickahominy . Jusst because one person dies an leaves you land doesnt mean you are of those people.
I’m English ( I live in Essex, near London) and I wish I could have lived during the times of the first settlements. What a sight it must have been to see the endless forests that would have covered much of the continent. Such a shame that we have destroyed a lot of that now and those poor native tribes desperately trying to preserve their lands.
You may not know it, but the great plains of North America were nearly treeless, the coastal areas were well treed, but even eastern areas like Kentucky had great open spaces that didn't need to be cleared to be farmed. Today, we are replanting trees much faster than we are harvesting them, North America has lost about 20% of its open spaces in the last 50 years. I live in B.C., Canada, in the heart of big timber country You should come to B.C for a visit, we still have huge area of endless forest to see.
@@nathanadrian7797 Yes, that’s true, I went to BC last year (and Whistler as well) and we loved it!
Our favourite country and city by far.
@@noisyboy87 Glad you liked it, B.C. has so much to see.
To 21st century eyes,it would be very hard, simple life,and dangerous and violent.
Thank you for sharing this.
I mean wasn't the american revolution just the second english civil war if the majority of colonists were from the UK?
American civil jihad
Many Brits want to pretend they are not the same people because the US did most of the American Holocaust, and the Brits who started it want to clean their hands of the blood of their victims.
@@scintillam_dei Woke
3rd English civil war!
British were confident they were patient they think about the impossible and they proved the world that patience , perseverance and hard work is a force to accomplish impossible..
Very interesting video
I have visited Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown but for some reason did not remember how tobacco was the big export that initially made the colonies flourish and expand. My Dad did a genealogy back to a John Loveless who came from England in the 1700s who had settled in the southwestern part of Virginia (near Kentucky territory). My Dad's family lived in the same part of northeastern Ohio for generations that made the making of his family tree even possible, but it was his finding of a manuscript written by John Loveless and his son Samuel years later applying for war benefits for family members of the Revolution and the War of 1812 that makes his story sound like something out of the days of Daniel Boone if you take it as truth. From St. Louis
WRONG
Tobacco did NOT make the Virginia colonies rich. SLAVERY did
@@amirrejab7579 The same can be said for Cotton that followed as well. It's why when the Civil War broke out on the line was the wealth of the South. Those were the products and slavery was the means.
Lies again? Ezlink Card Entertaining Children
When the Jamestown colony faltered King James asked Edward Bennett to go to Virginia and with 600 colonist formed the Isle of Wight county, building the first successful venture in america.
Yes Logan , I'm a Bennett also!
Successful yes, the first no.
Those WERE the days my friend WE thought they would never end. You American's have a lot to thank us English for. If it wasn't for the English you probably wouldn't have ever existed.
3 good films of the early era...
1. the ghosts of roanoke - a paranormal story - 1587.
2. the new world - pocohantus, capt white, stars- christian bale.
3. the witch - a real creepy movie - 1620s set.
The Witch is very realistic, makes me happy to live when I do.
Spain and Portugal: We must share the world
Britain, France, and Nederlands: Says who?
You forget turkey
The pope in Rome.
Portugal and England is one if the oldest allies in the world
Awesome video, please do the French next as contrast.
Why is this guy enunciating so ridiculously succinctly?!
Excellent lesson some of my family was in the first colonies..
I enjoyed the video. Tks.
A small side note: New York (New Amsterdam 1614) was a colony founded by the Dutch. So no English colony. They eventually bought it from us, and renamed it New York (1664)
Thats why there are citystreets with Dutch names in Manhatten.
The Dutch also colonized Delaware, settling in modern Lewes (pronounced "Lewis" for non-Delawareans). Sweden would colonize a different part of Delaware, settling at Fort Christina (now Wilmington).
@@DarDarBinks1986 interesting stuff, didn't know this.
I thought the English took it from the Dutch by force? I don't think the Dutch sold it.
very nice
Good God! Your depiction of European geography (re: Spanish Armada) is woeful. See me after class
Well, technically Pocahontas was pretty much kidnapped, forced into mariage, and died of illness in England... Disney is a poor teacher of history.
Also, the original 1607 Jamestown site was abandoned 40 years after it's founding, as it was a very bad, marshy area.
I think kidnapped is a little harsh . Disney gets it wrong and the Pop history gets it wrong. Relationships with the natives were still decent . The English still relied heavily on the Natives for survival , Pocahontas was taken to England as a hostage but in the traditional Roman since of the word . She was well treated but was unhappy ( I would too , having to leave warm and sunny Eastern Virginia for the dirty and foggy England ) . In the beginning the English settlers treated the Natives as equals but equally in a medieval since of the word . They were brutal in warfare but so were the natives.
@@PeterPan54167 Point taken.
Then again, a "hostage" forced to marry sounds like kidnapping to our 21st century understanding, and it is far from the Disney love story version. 😉
@@brunoethier896 Also from what I remember it was an arranged marriage. Her father basically gave her away as a bride
@@PeterPan54167 Interesting to know 😅
Don't forget the harsh winter of 1609-10, when the Jamestown colonists had to resort to cannibalism.
What's the name of the background music that starts at 4:18.
Call of The North- Niklas Johansson if someone else is wondering.
Bosanska artillerija
The Spanish Armada did not turn back it passed right through the Channel harried by Drake and his fleet and made port in the Spanish Netherlands to pick up an army to invade England. But fire ships in the night scattered the Spanish fleet and prevailing winds forced them to sail north and round the tip of Scotland to get home. Hence the vast number of wrecks left behind on the West Coast of Scotland and Ireland. Pretty poor research to state in your video that they were forced back with a picture of a ship sailing Westwards down the Channel...
I thought exactly the same lol 🤦🏼♂️
The land that Jamestown is on was with the tribe of the Chickahominy. My 3rd great grandmother was of this tribe. The books say that Powatan tribe says it gained power over the land just south of the James river north to the Potomac river. If you look up the actualy tribe that lived on that land north of the James river. It was the Chickahominy . Jusst because one person dies an leaves you land doesnt mean you are of those people.
not to mention the defeat of the much bigger English counter Armada the year after ... i think this guy is under the effect of been brainwashed with English TUROR Royal propaganda ... that was a total fabrication of LIES !! ha ha haa
"How did the British colonize America" should be the title, also the highlighted countries aren't even England its Ireland, Wales and England on the map shown
@scoot manke damn who s*** in your corn flakes it's okay
@scoot manke lol
Hell, I need a smoke after this video.
Me too
Nice
He got with me that “behooved” part
What a powerhouse we are for such a small island 🇬🇧
*were
@@JohnHazenhousen love the fact that most of the world speaks English as well
@@JamieB237 Yes, that stems from back when you _were_ a powerhouse.
@@JohnHazenhousen is there another powerhouse that has had a bigger impact than Britain? Maybe the Romans?
Superficial. I must have missed where you explained how the English actually were able to establish successful colonies over land that did not grow tobacco.
The video does appear to have a hate England first taint...
Me playing EU4:
I know exactly how...
I like to do this in EU4 with countries of Eastern Europe. It's harder but more interesting this way lol
They clicked on the province and hit colonize
@@DillonONeil and paid 2 ducats monthly for 10 years
>Play a random eastern europe country with a navy
>No CB a random irish minor
>annex
>picks exploration idea
>congratulations, you now can into colonialism
Yeah, it was pretty weird hearing at 5:21: "17th century is at the door and still no solid English colonies yet", in EU4 you can colonize by 1490. I guess irl they set native policy to aggresive and forgot to put 1k stacks in the provinces.
I can't even believe that just 600 years ago, Europeans did not know about the existence of a whole continent across the ocean. In these 600 years, a new nation called the Americans was born. Of course, many peoples participated in the ethnogenesis of Americans, but still the basis of the American nation is the British, Irish, Scots, Dutch, Germans, French, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Africans, Native Americans.
A little later, Italians, Poles, Jews, Russians, Chinese, Japanese and many other peoples arrived in the United States. This whole mix of peoples eventually gives birth to talented people. All these talented people make America great.
True but you have the europeans whites thinking they are better than everyone smh 🤦🏾♂️
Knowledgia sounds so smartified
6:24
Yeah that’s not something we Popham’s talk about.
The English had a second colonization effort, through Hudson's Bay, not even mentioned in this video. The Hudson's Bay Company at one time governed huge tracts of North America, including what is now Washington State, Oregon, and Northern California.
The description of the British fight with the Armada is also not very accurate.
In general, I believe viewers would be wise to check any assertion here before accepting it as factual.
Specifically the Armada dug out around Northern Scotland and had a lot of wrecks, and were plundered by Highland chiefs.
@@tomfrazier1103 Yup. My ancestors.
Nothing about the Dutch the first ones..?
@@waso778 Good point.
The marvelous thing about therteen colonies, was the first country founded under an idea: freedom, happiness and life. In spanish america had no idea about this, and we can see the results...Saludos desde España.
Britain was a colonial power that competed with other colonial powers, fought with them made treaties with them, and consolidate its dominion with these treaties. Brits were an absolute superpower once and made the foundation of superpower in upcoming ages :)
Not really. Remember the Spanish had massive and populated provinces in America by 1600, while the Brits were just establishing settlements.
Remember also that the extent of British colonization was just Thirteen Colonies confined to the east coast before USA fought for independence, while Spain stretched from Argentina to Florida to California and Louisiana.
The British Empire was more in Asia and Africa than the American continent.
Indeed, Britain was had the largest empire by land mass, we truly were the rulers of the world. Now we are a shadow of our once selves. As the saying goes "every empire falls and new ones emerge"
It was only England then there wasn't a UK until 1707
@@versenelol5083 Thats total bullshit lmao. Britain had many island colonies in the Caribbean and Central and South America. And Britain had colonies in all of North America
@@JJaqn05 Lmao. The Thirteen Colonies is confined to the eastern coast of America before their independence. Spain had Florida all the way to San Francisco as well as Louisiana, won over by USA during Spanish-Mexico War.
Fact: The British did not command the Americas. It was the Spanish followed by the Americans.
Nicely informative video.
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@@Knowledgia---Hey have you ever considered making video's on how the Spanish or French colonized North American. Or considered doing a video on how Holland or Sweden founded their colonies in this continent. They could be very informative.
Proud Anglo-Spaniard 🇬🇧🇪🇦
Proud Anglo American
🇬🇧🇪🇸🇺🇸
Naval power was the key. The Vikings seem to have passed it down as an art.
That was interesting.
so weird and interesting how the world has developed
One great nation gives birth to another
It’s also just overall design. if we’re going to have multiple tanks, I think the Leopard prob shouldnt be the strongest, but it most certainly shouldn’t be made obsolete by some polish paper tank. There’s no alternative for tanks for people who prefer to stay in the realm of feasibility. The only counter to the god forsaken rocket bikes are other rocket bikes. There’s been no real successor to the jets we use today. Meta jets are just the same as they’ve always been. No F-35/22 plane to succeed them, so that regular pilots can still hold their own against the Mk2s. I don’t even feel guilty about disabling lockon through menus anymore, since there’s just no way to avoid the Mk2s. They will always get you eventually; no matter how many flares, loops, or speed manipulating you do.
Your graphics show the Spanish Armada retreating south through the English channel when the surviving ships were blown into the North Sea and they proceeded north of Scotland and west of Ireland to return to Spain.
he also mentions them going to The Netherlands but shows them going the wrong way
@@derekhammett8634 They did anchor in Flanders and were waiting for the Duke of Parma to bring his invasion forces, but Parma never showed. British fire ships scattered the Spanish fleet.