History of the United States I / Unit 3 USH1 0316 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Starving Time
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The idea
The winter of sixteen oh nine to sixteen ten nearly destroyed Jamestown. George Percy recorded a sharp prick of hunger no man can describe but he who has tasted it.
In practice
Survivors eating horses, dogs, cats, rats and mice, leather and serpents.
Where people slip
Of seventy-five hundred arrivals between sixteen oh seven and sixteen twenty-four, twelve hundred survived.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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