Was this Thomas West, better known as Lord De La Warr, whose name — Americanized to Delaware — has left its imprint on the national landscape? “There are so many graves cutting through graves, cutting through graves, cutting through graves,” Kelso said. But before they headed out to sea, they encountered an expedition, mounted by De La Warr, with dozens of new colonists. De La Warr at one point ordered the execution of a captured Indian queen, whose children his men had already murdered. Was this Lord De La Warr, who, as an elite, would often have been on horseback?

Source: Washington Post October 27, 2017 11:03 UTC