New Castle, the most prominent, prosperous and influential settlement in the new colony, became the capital.
The expeditionaries spent two days on the island before sailing westward to Hispaniola, where they established the first permanent settlement in the New World.
The first permanent European settlement in the New World was Spain's Santo Domingo (1496), which became the capital of the Dominican Republic.
L'Anse aux Meadows, site on the northern tip of Newfoundland island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, of the first known European settlement in the New World.
At the time of European settlement in the New World, pumas occupied all of what are today the lower 48 United States and southern Canada.
Most Democrats appear to favor a negotiated settlement in the new Congress, and it is not yet clear whether there is majority Democratic support for a rules fight on the floor.
They found it and then left for the same reason: they feared that amid the diversity of Holland their children would stray, and so opted to carve out an isolationist settlement in the New World.
Now that farmers could build such a fence easily and cheaply, the power-structure shifted: settlement in the new territories became both feasible and profitable, and as their numbers grew both law and politics began to be shaped in the settlers' interests.The new fences encroached on lands where stockmen had always imagined they had the right to roam freely.
In Los Angeles, the police said they were investigating their handling of a rally that erupted into violence.Celebrations got under way in Jamestown, Virginia, to mark the 400th anniversary of the founding of the first permanent English settlement in the New World.
The Company financed the first permanent English settlement in the "New World", Jamestown.
