Army And Navy Life And The United Service Vol 10 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...in the Roads that which makes peace and progress possible. THE LOCATION Nothing remains of Jamestown except an ivy-covered church tower and a few resurrected ruins of the village buildings over which fields of corn have waved for scores of successive seasons. So primeval is the surrounding at the present day that it is no uncommon sight tu see deer bounding through the forests of the neighborhood, and recently a bear made her den in one of the numerous rifiepits of the community, and reared her family undisturbed. Even the site of the old settlement has, to a considerable extent, disappeared beneath the restless tide of the mighty James and the peninsula lias long since become an island. For manifest reasons this celebration could not have been held on the site of the first settlement, and a much more suitable site was selected at Sewell's Point, on Hampton Roads, about thirty miles down the James River from Jamestown. The location is on historic ground, for from this point English eyes first beheld the waters of Hampton Roads. This was the achievement of Ralph Lane, a member of Sir Walter Raleigh's ill-fated colony of Roanoke, in the year 1585, twenty-two years before the advent of Captain John Smith and his party of intrepid colonists. ()n Sewell's Point the armies of three wars have marched, and during the Revolution several skirmishes occurred there. During the War of 1812. when the British attacked and destroyed Hampton, they stopped at Sewell's Point, and in the Civil War the point was occupied by the Confederate battery for the defense of the City of Norfolk. Numerous earthworks and fortifications abound in the neighborhood. In front of the exposition grounds roll the waters of Hampton Roads, a water way which involves more...