They set sail on 21 March 1604, and arrived in Oyapoc on 22 May 1604[1] taking possession of the country "in the eyes of the Indians.
Upon begging his brother, Sir Oleph, for reinforcements, The Olive Plant returned, renamed The Phoenix, to find the settlement in "a rather critical position.
[5] Robert Harcourt received license to travel in 1608, and arrived at the Wiapoco 17 May 1609, and claimed "the whole continent of Guiana" for King James, 14 August 1609.
Harcourt made further explorations along the Guiana coast In 1620, Roger North (who had been a part of Sir Walter Raleigh's last expedition to the Guianas) set to establish a colony with 120 men, encountering other English and Irish settlers from Haricourt's colony.
Three of the colonists, Thomas Warner, John Rhodes, and Robert Bims moved on after two years to found St. Christopher, England's first English colony of the West Indies.