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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 ...
Opechancanough led the Powhatan in the second and third Anglo-Powhatan Wars, including the Indian massacre of 1622. In 1646, the aged Opechancanough was captured by English colonists and taken to Jamestown , where he was killed by a settler assigned to guard him.
1664 Second Anglo-Dutch War in which the English conquer New Netherland and rename it New York and New Jersey (The war lasts in Europe and elsewhere until 1667.) 1673–1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War in which the Dutch re-capture New York, New Jersey, Delaware but return territory to the English after the war; 1675–1676 King Philip's War in New ...
Beginning of Third Anglo-Powhatan War: Virginia: Powhatan (Pamunkey) killed more than 400 English settlers throughout the Virginia colony, about 4 percent of the English population of the Jamestown colony, in a second effort to push the English out of Virginia. 400+ (English) [36] 1644: March: Pound Ridge Massacre: New York
First English Civil War (1642–1646) – 190,000 Englishmen died [3] Civil War in Scotland (1644–1647) Second English Civil War (1648) Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649–53) – Cromwell killed 300,000 to 500,000 Irish in his invasion [3] Third English Civil War (1650–1651) Third Anglo-Powhatan War (1644) First Anglo-Dutch War (1652 ...
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 ...
In 1622, the second Anglo-Powhatan War broke out when the Powhatan attacked Jamestown and killed 347 settlers, roughly 30% of the settlement's population at the time. In 1644, the Powhatan attacked Jamestown in the same method as the 1622 attack. They killed 400 settlers, about 10% of Jamestown's population at the time, which started the third ...
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