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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 ...
Third Anglo-Powhatan War England: Powhatan Confederacy: 1644 1674 Char Bouba war: Maqil Arab tribes Sanhadja Berber tribes 1644 1651 Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms Part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Scottish Covenanters: Scottish Royalists Irish Catholic Confederate: 1645 1669 Cretan War (1645–1669) Ottoman Empire Barbary ...
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 ...
The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia [note 1] is a 1619 historical book by William Strachey, one of the most prominent primary sources on the earliest English colonization efforts in North America. He was a settler at Jamestown, and wrote extensively of the Powhatan civilization.
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-Spanish War (1585–1604) – The Anglo-Spanish War might be said to be the first world war, in that it was fought on three continents (Europe and the Americas) and two oceans (the Atlantic and, just barely, the Pacific) [2] Nine Years' War (Ireland) (1594–1603) Eighty Years' War (1585–1648) First Anglo-Powhatan War (1609–1613)
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.
In May 1614, Thomas Savage was sent with Ralph Hamor to setup an arranged marriage between Thomas Dale and Powhatan's youngest daughter, but the endeavor failed. [7] By 1619, Savage lived at Martin's Brandon plantation. [citation needed] Likely during the on-and-off Anglo-Powhatan Wars, he was given a rank of Ensign.