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Spanish ventures in the New World initially succeeded much more dramatically than contemporary English efforts to establish a colony in Virginia.

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“It's interesting to contrast the Spanish who had immediate and outrageous successes in the New World with the English around the same time we're setting up the colony in Virginia.”

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