English American - History

History

A statue in Historic Jamestowne commemorating the site of the first permanent English settlement in America.

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    While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it.
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