AMERICA'S FIRST WAR VETERANS: Defenders of Jamestown 1607

From: VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine | Date: May 1, 2007| Author: Kolb, Richard K | Copyright information

As the nation celebrates the 400th anniversary of the settlement of the first permanent English colony in North America, the fighting there should he more than a mere footnote in history. For this also is where America's military traditions took root during the First Anglo-Powhatan War.

"From this tiny, isolated island evolved our political institutions, our language, our commerce and much of our culture," said Dr. William Kelso, director of the Jamestown Rediscovery Project. "No other...

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