“Quo Fata Ferunt”: Bermuda’s 400th Anniversary

written by Dr. George Cook

The wreck of Sea Venture and the subsequent rescue of the Jamestown colony in Virginia is one of the great maritime epics of the western world. What early seventeenth century writers might see as the hand of God, our more skeptical age might attribute to good leadership and good luck: something that is so often neglected in history. Those events began 400 years of continuous habitation of these small isolated Atlantic islands. They also resulted in Bermuda’s playing a crucial role in maintaining 400 years of continuous English settlement in North America and, therefore, the beginning of what became her great neighbour, the United States of America.

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