Meanings of found the colony in English

The next few years therefore found the colony again in desperate straits.

And to his still greater astonishment he found the colony deserted.

They reached Virginia without farther accident, but found the colony in great distress for provisions.

The voyagers landed, and found the colony of Port Royal dwindled to two solitary Frenchmen.

He found the colony in a worse state than when he left it under the care of his brother Bartholomew.

The trio eventually found the colony, snatched six eggs, dropped three and staggered back to base camp close to death.

When he landed, he found the colony in a state of anarchy, or rather organized rebellion under a powerful and popular chief.

They founded the colonies of New England, which are now a part of the United States.

In the next century after Columbus's travels the Portuguese founded the colony of Brazil on the continent of South America.

The few millions who have sprung from those who founded the colonies, trace back with lineal love their blood to them.

It was not merely that he found the Colony on the brink of ruin, and left it in a state of prosperity and progress.

In this bay, known to the ancients as the Gulf of Plataea, it is said that the Greeks landed who founded the colony of Cyrene.

In 1682, Quaker William Penn, son of an Admiral, founded the colony of Pennsylvania for Quakers in a "Holy Experiment" in political and religious freedom.

The Puritan Pilgrims of the May-Flower landed on Plymouth Rock, and founded the Colony of Massachusetts, on the 21st day of December, 1620.