#47 Epilogues and Consequences: After the Armada and the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke
The History of the Americans
Jack Henneman
4.9 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we wrap up loose ends before moving on down the timeline: What happened after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and what happened after John White left the Roanoke Colony in August 1587? We also see what happened to all those Elizabethan characters we’ve been talking about for the last three months, including Francis Drake, Elizabeth herself, John Hawkins, Martin Frobisher, Francis Walsingham, and Philip II. Finally, we explore the long-term consequences of both the Armada and the Roanoke Colony for the History of the Americans.
Oh, and we read a poem in the spirit of the day.
Selected references for this episode
Garrett Mattingly, The Armada
Robert Hutchinson, The Spanish Armada: A History
James Horn, A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
David Beers Quinn, Set Fair for Roanoke: Voyages and Colonies, 1584-1606
Paul E. Hoffman, “New Light on Vicente Gonzalez’s 1588 Voyage in Search of Raleigh’s English Colonies”
Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) (Wikipedia)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast, episode 47. I'm your host, Jack Heneman, |
| 0:13.0 | and I'm recording this episode in my bedroom closet in New Orleans, Louisiana, on November 11th, 2021, the 103rd anniversary of the |
| 0:25.1 | end of World War I. It is the 11th day of the 11th month, but not quite the 11th hour, |
| 0:33.7 | at least not here in the Crescent City. Before we get to today's episode, I don't want November 11th to pass without looking at some of the things that happened on this date. |
| 0:44.1 | After all, it might be years before I again record an episode on November 11th. |
| 0:51.3 | In modern memory, November 11th marks the end of the war that combines sheer pointlessness and industrialized killing like no other before it. |
| 1:02.0 | In the United States, November 11th is Veterans Day, and we have to a great degree overwhelm the memory of World War I with generic tributes to all the people who have |
| 1:12.0 | fought for this country at any time or any place. In the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth |
| 1:18.8 | countries, November 11th is Remembrance Day, formerly Armistusus Day. And those countries |
| 1:25.4 | keep the memory of the Great War alive by the wearing of poppies. |
| 1:30.3 | If you have the chance to be in London on November 11th to see the tradition, take it. |
| 1:37.0 | Why the poppies? They come from an iconic poem by a Canadian soldier of that war, John McCrae. He had fought in some of the unbelievably |
| 1:46.9 | bloody battles in Flanders, 340 years after the Duke of Parma had conquered the same area for |
| 1:53.2 | Philip II. McRae noticed that poppies would quickly grow over the graves of soldiers buried in a |
| 2:00.0 | hurry. |
| 2:01.8 | So he wrote, |
| 2:03.7 | In Flanders Fields, |
| 2:09.0 | which I'm going to read right now because it is one of my favorite poems ever. |
| 2:11.8 | I hope you'll like it as much as I do. |
| 2:28.3 | In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow between the row on row, that mark our place and in the sky, the larks still bravely singing fly, scarce herd amid the guns below. |
| 2:36.1 | We are the dead. Short days ago, we lived, felt dawn, saw a sunset glow. |
| 2:42.0 | Loved, and we're loved. And now we lie in Flandersfields. |
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