Russia wanted a permanent presence in North America, and hoped to exploit ... Russia's rivals from fully engaging in Alaska exploration and settlement. The British lost the American colonies ...

Satellite images have led archaeologists to a ... hopes will shed more light on the early history of European exploration of North America. If the 1960 discovery at L’Anse aux Meadows proves ...

They had also gotten a foothold in Central America and the southern portions of North America ... later wrote that the force behind the settlement "was nothing but present profit." ...