• 1497: English send John Cabot – claims Newfoundland to the Chesapeake Bay.

• English Navy was not strong enough to deal with Spanish Navy

Spanish Armada

• 1588- English (and storms + disease) destroy the Spanish Armada

  • Lost 60 of 130 ships.

  • England declared a sea power

• 1607 – Jamestown – VA, England’s first “successful” colony and one of the earliest in the modern US.