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Virginia’s Historic Triangle

Jonathan Ray

Wednesday, 2nd May 2007

They call it Virginia’s Historic Triangle, this tiny corner of the United States bounded by Jamestown, Yorktown and Colonial Williamsburg, and the region has been en fête for months, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the first permanent English settlement in America and thus, in effect, the birth of a nation.

The celebrations will reach fever pitch on 3 May with the arrival of the Queen in Jamestown, where the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery made landfall on the banks of the James River on 13 May 1607. She will spend the night in Colonial Williamsburg, the cultural and political centre of Virginia from 1699 to 1780 — where the likes of Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and Peyton Randolph clamoured for independence from her great-great-great-great-grandfather’s government, the rotten ingrates, but will sensibly bypass Yorktown where, in 1781, it famously all went pear-shaped for us.

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