Avalon was an English settlement on the west coast of Atlantis, was founded in the 1470s by Henry Radcliffe, who named it for an ideal paradise island in Arthurian legend. While the settlement quickly thrived, by the 17th century Avalon had become the home of pirates who raided Atlantis and Terranova. The most infamous of these was Radcliffe's own descendant, Red Rodney Radcliffe. A combination of Dutch and English forces, commanded by William Radcliff (a descendant of Henry who lived in Stuart), did away with the pirates in 1666. However, Avalon's reputation for producing rogues died very hard, and popular culture tended to romanticize and nostalgize the exterminated pirates.
During the Atlantean War of Independence, Britain hired copperskinned mercenaries from Terranova to attack Avalon. After the Treaty of Croydon, Avalon became the population center of the State of Avalon within the United States of Atlantis.
During the War of 1809, the Royal Navy was preparing to bombard Avalon, but the war was ended before this could happen.
Around 1827, Avalon abolished slavery.[1]
In 1843, foreign visitors John Audubon and Edward Harris noted that Avalon was becoming a cosmopolitan city, with a publishing industry of some note. Mr. Hawthorne, author of The Crimson Brand, resided in Avalon, which still retained the names of various cutthroats for its streets.[2]
Audubon and Harris stayed in Avalon at the Hesperian Queen, before entering the interior of the continent. They dined with Audubon's Atlantean publisher, Gordon Coates.[3] Audubon and Harris observed that due to the effects of the Bay Stream, Avalon lived in a perpetual April, while New Marseille to the south basked in an almost unending May.[4]
References[]
- ↑ Liberating Atlantis, pg. 435.
- ↑ See e.g.: Atlantis and Other Places, pgs. 22-24, HC.
- ↑ Ibid., pgs. 23-25.
- ↑ Ibid, pg. 17.
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