Roanoke Colony is a colony that was located in present-day North Carolina, it was established in 1584 AD by the English colonists in an attempt to build the first English settlement in North America, and the settlers faced great difficulties due to the lack of crops and disputes with the indigenous people, and that settlement suddenly disappeared without To know so far where the colony went.

Queen Elizabeth I granted a charter to Sir Walter Raleigh, according to which he would gather a small group and settle in the Chesapeake Bay as part of a larger expedition to explore and settle in North America. Sir Richard Grenfell led that expedition and actually headed to North America, and the expedition settled on Roanoke Island in 1584 AD.

But after a short period of settlement, Grenfell burned a village owned by the Algonquians who lived in North Carolina before the arrival of the colonists, and this incident led to the end of the friendly relations that had been between the colonists and the indigenous people earlier, and any attempts to settle this issue failed, which led to a lack of resources In front of the colonists, Sir Francis Drake passed by them during his return from the Caribbean islands to England and offered to take them to their homeland, and indeed the first group of settlers returned to England.

But in 1587, John White and another group of settlers returned to North America with the aim of establishing a settlement in the Chesapeake Bay, but the captain of the ship took them to Roanoke Island, and among the group was his daughter Eleanor White and her husband Annanbesdari and later gave birth to their daughter Virginia Dare, who is the first English child Born in North America.

The second group of whites faced the same difficulties as the first group, it was too late to plant when they arrived at the colony and the colonists also lacked a large number of materials, in addition to that, one of the original inhabitants killed a white colonist, so John Wight ordered an attack on a tribe close to the population The aborigines and retaliation against them, and this increased the tension that already existed between the settlers and the aborigines.

Because of those problems, White decided to return to England to seek help and leave behind 117 white people in the colony. When White returned to England, Queen Elizabeth was preoccupied with the Anglo-Spanish War between her and King Philip II of Spain, and most of England's resources were directed to war, and they did not There weren't enough boats or people to direct them to the New World. John White stayed in Europe for a few years until the war ended, then returned to Roanoke Island in 1590. The settlement was not abandoned.

John Wright says that when he arrived, he found a carving in large letters on a tree trunk in which was written the word Croatan, which is the name of a nearby island. Wright concluded that the colonists had moved to that island and lived with the indigenous people there because of their lack of resources, but due to bad weather Wright did not sail to the settlement of Croatan and returned to England, and the fate of the inhabitants of that colony was never known.

A number of theories spread about the fate of the Roanoke colony, including the possible and the absurd, they may have migrated from the island, and there is a theory that they were all killed by the indigenous people, and there are unreasonable theories such as the outbreak of zombie disease among them, but in fact there is no real evidence to explain The disappearance of the Roanoke colony to this day.