the first ever colony is the colony of Virginia, if you are talking about the first permanent colony, its Jamestown
Columbus was originally going to sail along the West African coast and around the Cape of Good Hope. But than Columbus had the idea of instead to sail west across the Atlantic instead of around the gigantic African continent.
Eisenhower Doctrine pledged to support the help of any country resisting communist aggression.
If I remember correctly it is Spain
The Iroquois had past ties to both the English and the French, and the French had agreed to act as the authority between signatory tribes.