describe the development of the Jamestown colony from its disastrous beginnings to its later prosperity

Jamestown was founded by 100 English settlers that disembarked from their ships. It was founded on May 24, 1607. Captain John Smith took over the town, in 1608, and brought discipline upon the colonists. The "starving winter" of 1609-1610 killed approximately 340 of the 400 settlers who came to Virginia, by 1609. in 1610, Lord De La Warr arrived to Jamestown with supplies and military. He started the First Anglo-Powhatan War, and the Chesapeake were defeated, again, in the Second war in 1644. The natives were banished and by 1685, they were considered to be extinct.