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The First Anglo–Powhatan War lasted from 1609 to 1614 between the Powhatans and the colonists. [6] De La Warr sent George Percy and James Davis with 70 men to attack the Paspahegh town on August 9, 1610, burning houses and cutting down cornfields. They killed between 15 and 75 villagers and captured one of Wowinchopunk's wives and her two ...
The Indian massacre of 1622 took place in the English colony of Virginia on March 22, 1621/22 ().English explorer John Smith, though he was not an eyewitness, wrote in his History of Virginia that warriors of the Powhatan "came unarmed into our houses with deer, turkeys, fish, fruits, and other provisions to sell us"; [2] they then grabbed any tools or weapons available and killed all English ...
Anglo-Powhatan Wars A 1585 painting of a Chesapeake Bay warrior by John White ; this painting was adapted to represent Opechancanough in the engraving above. Opechancanough ( / oʊ p ə ˈ tʃ æ n k ə n oʊ / oh-pə- CHAN -kə-noh ; c. 1554–1646) [ 2 ] was paramount chief of the Powhatan Confederacy in present-day Virginia from 1618 until ...
1641–1667 First Beaver War in the Great Lakes region; 1643–1645 Kieft's War in New Netherland; 1644–1647 Claiborne and Ingle's Rebellion in Maryland; part of the English Civil War; 1644–1646 Third Anglo–Powhatan War following Opechancanough's Massacre in Virginia; 1655 Battle of the Severn in Maryland; part of the English Civil War
The Anglo-Powhatan Wars were three wars fought between English settlers of the Virginia Colony, and Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy in the early seventeenth century. The First War started in 1610, and ended in a peace settlement in 1614.
Relations between the colonists and the Powhatans quickly deteriorated after De La Warr's arrival, eventually leading to conflict. The Anglo-Powhatan War lasted until Samuel Argall captured Wahunsenacawh's daughter Matoaka, better known by her nickname Pocahontas, after which the chief accepted a treaty of peace.
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The Second Anglo–Powhatan War that followed the 1644 incident ended in 1646 after Royal Governor of Virginia William Berkeley's forces captured Opechancanough, thought to be between 90 and 100 years old. While a prisoner, Opechancanough was killed, shot in the back by a soldier assigned to guard him.