Horn, James. “Jamestown Hangs in the Balance.”

James Horn’s retelling of Britain’s first permanent settlement illustrate the pure luck which must have been at the hands f the British throughout their conquering of North America. After the original landing of colonists to Jamestown in 1607 the colony did not prosper and after two long years of trying to get by beside the Powhatan, as well as through a war between the two groups, Gates landed on Jamestown to see the settlement practically disintegrated. After eventually calling it quits, Gates, his men and the remaining settlers (a measly sixty compared to the two-hundred which first settled) took ship and headed back to Europe. As Horn highlight though, one the way back home, Gates found that a boat was sent with more settlers to “rescue” the remains of the Jamestown settlement and was forced to turn around. Breathing new life into the once depilated settlement, “the colony now passed to some 375 settlers and a renewed leadership”.⁶