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  2. Colony of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The Colony of Virginia was a British colonial settlement in North America from 1606 to 1776.. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colony lasted for three attempts totaling six years.

  3. Jamestown, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Jamestown is one of three locations composing the Historic Triangle of Colonial Virginia, along with Williamsburg and Yorktown. [8] Historic Jamestowne is the archaeological site on Jamestown Island and is a cooperative effort by Jamestown National Historic Site and Preservation Virginia. Jamestown Settlement, a living history interpretive site ...

  4. European immigration to the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The final phase of colonial immigration, from 1760 to 1820, became dominated by free settlers and was marked by a huge increase in British immigrants to North America and the United States in particular. In that period, 871,000 Europeans immigrated to the Americas, of which over 70% were British (including Irish in that category).

  5. Timeline of the Channel migrant crisis - AOL

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    More than 150,000 migrants have crossed the Channel in the last seven years since current records began, according to analysis by the PA news agency. This is how events have unfolded since the ...

  6. History of immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1607, the first successful English colony settled in Jamestown, Virginia. Once tobacco had been found to be a profitable cash crop, many plantations were established along the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia and Maryland. The colonists were met with hard times including famine, illness, and their relationship with the local Native American tribes ...

  7. Channel crossings by migrants in small boats: Key numbers - AOL

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    How many migrants have arrived so far this year? A total of 33,684 people have been detected crossing the Channel in small boats since the start of 2024, according to provisional figures from ...

  8. History of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    From 1,800 persons in 1782, the total population of free blacks in Virginia increased to 12,766 (4.3 percent of blacks) in 1790, and to 30,570 in 1810; the percentage change was from free blacks' comprising less than one percent of the total black population in Virginia, to 7.2 percent by 1810, even as the overall population increased. [105]

  9. The Channel migrant crisis – a timeline - AOL

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    Home Secretary Suella Braverman has set out plans to stop the small boats crossing from France.