Thus, the birth of Virginia Dare, in the "Citie of Raleigh in Virginia," August 18, 1587, first child of English parentage to be born in the New World, was a prophetic symbol of the future rise of a new English-speaking nation beyond the seas.
In the meantime, the English were engaged in what would be called today a "cold war"-- pin-pricking the Spaniard in the West Indies and about to settle on the American mainland at a spot sufficiently close to Spanish Florida to constitute both an economic and a military threat to Spain.
Growth of the English colony would circumscribe Spain's own colonial effort; at the same time, the location chosen for the English colony was close enough to serve as a base of operations against Spanish new world ship- ping.
The Isle of Wight is an Englishisland and county, off the southern English coast, to the south of the county of Hampshire.
Island wildlife is remarkable, thought to be the only place in England where the red squirrel is flourishing, with a stable population.
The island is the home of the smallest train operating company in the United Kingdom's National Rail network, the Island Line, running some 8½ miles from Ryde Pier Head to Shanklin, down the eastern side of the island.
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