<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">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>
