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Who established a colony on Roanoke Island?

a. Francis Drake
b. Sir Walter Raleigh
c. Edmund Spenser
d. William Shakespeare

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The answer is B. sir Walter Raleigh

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It was "Sir Walter Raleigh" who established a colony on Roanoke Island, after he had been given a royal charter patent by Queen Elizabeth I of England to colonize America. 
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