Success at the Roanoke Colony

[Hawkeye]

What would happen if the British Roanoke Colony was a huge success and became a prosperous colony in North America?

[Analytical Engine]

First, you'd have to put it somewhere else...

[birdy]

They just stopped at Roanoke I think to pick up the soldiers left by a previous expedition, the plan was to settle on the Chesapeake Bay I believe.

[Andrew Hudson]

Not a lot different really, merely Jamestown seventeen years earlier or twenty depending on which sttlement succeeded. If it was the second one then maybe Sir Walter Raleigh would have gone bach there running a company, stayed out of court politics and piracy and kept his head