It was a result of superior Japanese planning because it was a sneak attack on America .
Roanoke Colony, it is also known as the Lost Colony, and it was established in the late 1500s
You can find that information here:
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1826-1850/the-confessions-of-nat-turner/list-of-persons-murdered.....
"<span>Joseph Travers and wife and three children, Mrs. Elizabeth Turner, Hartwell Prebles, Sarah Newsome, Mrs. P. Reese and son William, Trajan Doyle, Henry Bryant and wife and child, and wife's mother, Mrs. Catherine Whitehead, son Richard and four daughters and grandchild, Salathiel Francis, Nathaniel Francis' overseer and two children, John T. Barrow, George Vaughan, Mrs. Levi Waller and ten children, William Williams, wife and two boys, Mrs. Caswell Worrell and child, Mrs. Rebecca Vaughan, Ann Eliza Vaughan, and son Arthur, Mrs. John K. Williams and child, Mrs. Jacob Williams and three children, <span>and Edwin Drury"
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Roughly 55 people were killed.
