Who Founded Each of the 13 Original Colonies?

At the start of the 17th century, three colonial powers — France, Spain, and England — were competing for dominion in North America. Despite arriving later than their rivals, it was the British who finally took control. Within a century and a half, they had created 13 flourishing colonies on the Atlantic coast — the same 13 colonies that eventually broke away from British rule during the American Revolutionary War.