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The English Arrive at Tsenacomoco
http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Tsenacomoco_Powhatan_Paramount_Chiefdom#start_entry On April 26, 1607, the shipsSusan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery sailed into the Chesapeake Bay with 144 English men and boys, including crews. A landing party came ashore to reconnoiter at a place they gratefully named Point Comfort. At dusk, Indians attacked and wounded two Englishmen and then retreate -
First Expedition Up the Bay
first exped. John smith June 2-July 21, 1608
First Expedition Up the Bay
During Captain John Smith's first expedition up the Chesapeake Bay, he explores various tributary rivers, such as the Patawomeck River. The Patawomecks come out with canoes filled with deer and bear meat to share with the English. On their return to Jamestown, the Patawomeck Chief provides guides to the English to show them the -
First Anglo-Powhatan War (1609–1614)
Powhatan War 1 The First Anglo-Powhatan War was fought from 1609 until 1614 and pitted the English settlers at Jamestown against an alliance of Algonquian-speaking Virginia Indians led by Powhatan (Wahunsonacock). After the English arrived in Virginia in 1607, they struggled to survive through terrible drought and cold winters. Unable to adequately provide for themselves, they pressured the Indians of Tsenaco -
1622 Second Anglo-Indian powhatan War
2nd Anglo-Indian powhatan War
The Second Anglo-Powhatan War was fought from 1622 until 1632, pitting English colonists in Virginia against the Algonquian-speaking Indians of Tsenacomoco, led by Opitchapam and his brother (or close kinsman) Opechancanough. After the First Anglo-Powhatan War (1609–1614), which ended with the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe, the English colony began to grow. The headright -
The Pequot and King Philip's Wars in New England
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The force sailed
n late August 1636, Massachusetts Bay organized a force of 90 soldiers under the command of Colonel John Endicott. This group launched a punitive expedition against the Manisses of Block Island in retaliation for the murder of trader John Oldham (just a month earlier). -
End of Pequote War
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Treaty Of Hartford
http://connecticuthistory.org/topics-page/pequot-war/ The war culminated with the 1638 Treaty of Hartford, which outlawed the Pequot language and name, seized tribal lands, and disbanded the surviving Pequot, who were given to the victors as spoils of war or sold into slavery. - See more at: http://connecticuthistory.org/topics-page/pequot-war/#sthash.SWknvsD8.dpuf -
End of Tsenacomo 1646
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October 1646
Chief Necotowance succeeds Chief Opechancanough as leader of the Powhatan Chiefdom and signs the October 1646 treaty. -
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Chief Tecumseh
Chief Tecumseh
Shawnee Indian political leader and war chief Tecumseh (1768-1813) came of age amid the border warfare that ravaged the Ohio Valley in the late 18th century. He took part in a series of raids of Kentucky and Tennessee frontier settlements in the 1780s, and emerged as a prominent chief by 1800. Tecumseh transformed his brother’s religious following into a political movement, leading to the foundation o -
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Trial of Tears 1838
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1567.html click image for close-up In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced
