<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle">The Elizabethans and America: Part II -- The fate of the Virginia Colony rested on the endurance of adventurers, the financing of London merchants, and the favor of a courtier with his demanding spinster Queen.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Riding to hounds has been as much of a sport among well-to-do Americans as among the British gentry</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> In 1639 an Englishman named Lion Gardiner singled out a piece of the New World and removed his family thereto—his very own island off the Connecticut coast. And despite invasions of pirates, treasure hunters, and British soldiers, Gardiners Island has remained in the hands of that family ever since. Because of Lion’s shrewd investment his descendants have indeed been</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Besides being a bigot, a fop, and a thief, the British governor Lord Cornbury, had some peculiar fetishes</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> Few men—foreign or native born—have ever understood us better than this infinitely curious, inveterate Visitor from England</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">400 years ago, the first English settlers reached America. What followed was a string of disasters ending with the complete disappearance of a colony.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Just before the American Revolution, the flight of British subjects to the New World forced a panicky English government to wrestle with this question.</span></p>
<p>Built in Dublin in 1778 by a member of the British Parliament who admired George Washington, the vandalized monument stands on an old estate now in ruins.</p>
<p>Authentic brass “crickets” issued to American paratroopers on D-Day are now quite rare. A worldwide search recently “unearthed a lost piece of sound history.”</p>
