The country the Pilgrim Fathers left for America from in 1620 was England. Britain was purely a geographical expression, and not a particularly widely used one. The United Kingdom of Great Britain came into existence in 1707 when the two states officially united. Americans have continued to call the result England to this day. Read more at the new home of the blog http://historybooksreview.co.uk/theodosius-in-britain-gibbons-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/
