Britain had claim to Roanoke island because Roanoke Island is one of the three oldest surviving English place-names in the U.S.
Why Britain had claim to Roanoke island?
The Roanoke islands were an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found a permanent settlement in North America with the intention of troubling Spanish shipping, mining for gold and silver, finding a route to the Pacific Ocean, and converting the natives to Christianity.
A permanent English settlement was founded in 1587 when English men, women, and children landed on Roanoke Island. When English ships came back to the island to give supplies only three years later, in 1590, they discovered it abandoned and without any traces of the inhabitants.
Britain had claim to the Roanoke Island colony because the first English settlement in the New World, was founded by English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh.
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