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  2. Powhatan - Wikipedia

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    Various tribes each held some individual powers locally, and each had a chief known as a weroance (male) or, more rarely, a weroansqua (female), meaning "commander". [13]As early as the era of John Smith, the individual tribes of this grouping were recognized by English colonists as falling under the greater authority of the centralized power led by the chiefdom of Powhatan (c. 1545 – c ...

  3. Anglo-Powhatan Wars - Wikipedia

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    The Anglo–Powhatan Wars were three wars fought between settlers of the Colony of Virginia and the Powhatan People of Tsenacommacah in the early 17th century. The first war started in 1609 and ended in a peace settlement in 1614. [1]

  4. American Indian Wars - Wikipedia

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    Anglo-Powhatan Wars ... including 500 volunteers on an enlistment due to end January 1, 1836. ... Philip Sheridan was the military governor of Louisiana and Texas in ...

  5. Necotowance - Wikipedia

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    Powhatan”-Wahun Son A Cock (Wahunsonacaw) Paramount Chief of the Powhatan Confederacy in 1607 when English colonists began their colonization of Virginia. Born circa 1547 (estimated to be 60 years old on 1607). Relinquished Chiefdom to his brother Opitchapam in 1618, due to poor health and died about April of that same year.

  6. Paspahegh - Wikipedia

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    Chief Powhatan did not respond. August 9, 1610 – Tired of waiting for a response from Powhatan, De la Warr sent Percy with 70 colonists to attack the Paspahegh capital; they burned the houses and destroyed nearby cornfields. They killed between 65 and 75 Paspahegh during the attack, and captured one of Wowinchapuncke's wives and her children ...

  7. Indian massacre of 1622 - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Tsenacommacah - Wikipedia

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    John Smith's map of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. The map, c. 1612, details the location of numerous villages within Tsenacommacah. Tsenacommacah (pronounced / ˌ s ɛ n ə ˈ k ɒ m ə k ə / SEN-ə-KOM-ə-kə in English; also written Tscenocomoco, Tsenacomoco, Tenakomakah, Attanoughkomouck, and Attan-Akamik) [1] is the name given by the Powhatan people to their native homeland, [2 ...

  9. History of Lafayette, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    In 1804, Alexandre Mouton, the son of founder Jean, was born in Lafayette and would later become a U.S. Senator and, from 1843 to 1846, Governor of Louisiana. [ 4 ] On April 17, 1863, the Battle of Vermilion Bayou was fought, the third battle in a series of running battles between Union Major General Nathaniel Prentice Banks and Confederate ...