http://encyclopediavirginia.org http://encyclopediavirginia.org/img/EV_Logo_sm.gif This is the urltopfeed http://encyclopediavirginia.org The first and ultimate online reference work about the Commonwealth /Dyer_Carrie_Victoria_1839-1921 Fri, 17 May 2013 09:28:11 EST http://encyclopediavirginia.org/Dyer_Carrie_Victoria_1839-1921 Fri, 17 May 2013 09:28:11 EST]]> /Duncan_Pauline_Adelaide_Haislip_1888-1973 Fri, 17 May 2013 09:25:18 EST http://encyclopediavirginia.org/Duncan_Pauline_Adelaide_Haislip_1888-1973 Fri, 17 May 2013 09:25:18 EST]]> /Fay_Lydia_Mary_ca_1804-1878 Fri, 17 May 2013 09:22:26 EST http://encyclopediavirginia.org/Fay_Lydia_Mary_ca_1804-1878 Fri, 17 May 2013 09:22:26 EST]]> /Dean_Jennie_Serepta_1848-1913 Fri, 17 May 2013 09:21:13 EST http://encyclopediavirginia.org/Dean_Jennie_Serepta_1848-1913 Fri, 17 May 2013 09:21:13 EST]]> /Strachey_William_1572-1621 Thu, 16 May 2013 15:39:11 EST http://encyclopediavirginia.org/Strachey_William_1572-1621 Thu, 16 May 2013 15:39:11 EST]]> /Percy_George_1580-1632_or_1633 Thu, 16 May 2013 15:34:22 EST http://encyclopediavirginia.org/Percy_George_1580-1632_or_1633 Thu, 16 May 2013 15:34:22 EST]]> /Smith_John_bap_1580-1631 Thu, 16 May 2013 15:32:19 EST http://encyclopediavirginia.org/Smith_John_bap_1580-1631 Thu, 16 May 2013 15:32:19 EST]]> /Colonial_Virginia Thu, 16 May 2013 14:50:38 EST http://encyclopediavirginia.org/Colonial_Virginia Thu, 16 May 2013 14:50:38 EST]]> /First_Anglo-Powhatan_War_1609-1614 Thu, 16 May 2013 14:48:17 EST http://encyclopediavirginia.org/First_Anglo-Powhatan_War_1609-1614 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 Tsenacomoco for relief, which led to a series of conflicts along the James River that intensified in the autumn of 1609. Powhatan ordered something like a siege of the English fort, which lasted through the winter of 1609–1610 and precipitated the so-called Starving Time. This was the Indians' best chance to win the war, but the English survived and, after the arrival of reinforcements, viciously attacked. Using terror tactics borrowed from Queen Elizabeth's conquest of Ireland, English soldiers burned villages and towns and executed women and children. Eventually they defeated the Nansemonds and Kecoughtans at the mouth of the James and the Appamattucks near the falls. After two years, Captain Samuel Argall captured Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas in the spring of 1613 and turned his prisoner into the leverage necessary to make peace. Although not all scholars see the First Anglo-Powhatan War as a distinct conflict, at least from the Indians' perspective, many argue it to be England's first Indian war in America.
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