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Columbus led his three ships - the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria - out of the Spanish port of Palos on August 3, 1492.
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It is the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States of America,
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The Plymouth Colony was established by Separatist Pilgrims who had travelled from Europe in order to flee religious persecution and establish a religious community separate from the Church of England.
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The expedition against New Amsterdam had been organized with the Duke of York, afterward King James II.,
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Plans for the first permanent European settlements on the east coast of North America began in late 1606, when King James I of England (James VI of Scotland) formed two joint stock companies.
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On March 5, 1681, one day after receiving his royal charter for Pennsylvania, William Penn wrote that he believed God would make his colony "the seed of the nation."
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In the early part of the eighteenth century, the trans-Appalachian region of North America remained much as it had been for the preceding centuries.
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The French drove the Virginians away on Apr. 17, 1754, and completed the fort; they named it after the Marquis de Duquesne, governor-general of New France.
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at Albany, N.Y., which advocated a union of the British colonies in North America for their security and defense against the French, foreshadowing their later unification.