Part 1: In 1578, John Dee (1527-1608) wrote series of four manuscripts entitled Limits of the British Empire, explaining why Queen Elizabeth had a legal right to North America (except for Florida, which the Spanish already occupied). Dee's text was lost for centuries, but in 1976, it was discovered and acquired by the British Library. In it, Dee explains that earlier Englishmen like King Arthur, Saint Brendan, Prince Madoc, and John and Sebastian Cabot had already claimed the New World for England. The farsighted Dee even coined the term "British Empire." Convinced by Dee's numerous...