<span>When the USS Maddox was fired
upon, it was situated in the Gulf of Tonkin.
The USS Maddox incident was also known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident.</span>
<span>USS Maddox was an Alien M.
Sumner-class destroyer given the name of Captain William A.T. Maddox. </span>
Well the first English settlement was really Roanoke, however it was not successful. The first successful one would be the new Virginia colony, later known as Jamestown;)