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My name is Greg Jackson.

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fractious civil war, tenacious inventors, brave reformers, and more.

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That's Commodore's Mananan, Kenway, Toves, loining, two-gun Tony, drunken

dack, Redbeard, Legends, Eric the Red, the Pirate Nopales, Hayfe, Matthew the Navigator,

Bull, Vertagon, Jennings, Rumgut, and Bootstraps Bailey. The Hello. Welcome to the Pirate History Podcast. My name is Matt. Thank you for listening. Last time we discussed the foundation of the colony at Jamestown, mostly through the stories of Captain Sir Christopher Newport

and John Smith.

We left the Virginians there in a precarious situation. There were about 200 settlers alive, probably fewer at this point, and

they continued to die at an alarming rate. They were low on everything, ammunition and fuel, space, but above all they were low on food.

The people were starving at Jamestown, and they were unable to do anything about it. They couldn't hunt,

or fish even, due to the swappy nature of their land and

to the hostility of the neighboring Poitan people who would attack them if ever they left.

The Poitan had formerly been friends, but they were hostile toward the English at this point due to the incompetence of their leadership and the arrogance of the English people.

This also prevented them from trading for food.

The poet had been their trading partners, but now the only people

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