The Crisis Volume 4 Author:Winston Churchill I am going ahead two years. Two years during which a nation struggled in agony with sickness, and even the great strength with which she was endowed at birth was not equal to the task of throwing it off. In 1620 a Dutch ship had brought from Guinea to his Majesty's Colony of Virginia the germs of that disease for which the Nation's blood was to ... more »be let so freely. During these years signs of dissolution, of death, were not wanting.« less