HIS 315K Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nautical Fiction, Puritans
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Raleigh, drake, gilbert, hawkins were going around for. Irish - sirs learned colonial oppression in annexation of ireland. 1588- spanish armada defeat - projectors emerge. He collected many sea stories, he thought the sea was the way england could rule and build their empire. Use boats to pinpoint places to win battles and make money. Places for england to send excess population. Walter raleigh had utopian dream of whites, blacks and indians being liberated and fighting the spanish and living prosperously. Settlers failed to self - labor, dependent on indians too much. They were focused on being warriors not settlers, Bawn - small fortress like set up. Found in ireland, now used in new world. Puritans invested labor into long term houses. Soldiers lived off land, little money took what they could from spoils of war. They killed indian headmaster, and starved because they had no support to live. 1587 - raleigh sent a 2nd expedition.
