Michael Ray
Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
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Michael Ray earned a B.A. in history from Michigan State University in 1995. He was a teacher in the Chicago suburbs and Seoul, South Korea, prior to joining Britannica as a freelancer in 2000. Hired as a full-time copy editor in 2003, he currently works as an assistant managing editor leading the Geography and History team.
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On May 14, 1607, approximately 105 colonists of the Virginia Company settled on a peninsula on the James River. There they founded Jamestown, Britain’s first foothold in the New World and the first capital of what would become Virginia. What followed was a scramble for territory on what is now the…
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