Horrors on Instagram: "Ratcliffe’s capture came during the winter of 1609–1610, a period so desperate it would later be known as the “Starving Time,” when Jamestown’s population collapsed from roughly 500 settlers to just 60. Food shortages, disease, internal conflict, and strained relations with local tribes pushed the colony to the brink of extinction, and Ratcliffe had already made himself deeply unpopular through harsh leadership and failed diplomacy. According to contemporary accounts, he w

Execution of John Ratcliffe