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    C: Smith taketh the King of Pamaunkee prisoner
    C: Smith taketh the King of Pamaunkee prisoner

    Opechancanough (d. 1646)

    Opechancanough was paramount chief of Tsenacomoco, a political alliance of Virginia Indians, and famously led massive assaults against the English colonists in 1622 and... Find Out More

  • “Observations in Several Voyages and Travels in America” by...
  • “Of Servants and Slaves in Virginia”; an excerpt from...
  • “Of such a dish as powdered wife”; an excerpt...
  • “Of ther servis to ther gods”; an excerpt from...
  • “Of ther Tounes & buildinges”; an excerpt from “Relation...
  • James Ogilvie (1773–1820)
  • Old Dominion
  • Old Men and Young Boys, Battle of (June 9,...
  • Olive Branch Petition (1775)
  • Silas Omohundro (1807–1864)
  • “On the Beauty and Fertility of America”; chapter 14...
  • Opechancanough (d. 1646)
  • "Oration Pronounced at the Funeral of George Wythe" (1806)
  • “The order about Jayle birds” (1670)
  • “Order Relieving General G. B. McClellan and Making Other...
  • An Ordinance and Constitution of Treasurer and Company in...
  • An Ordinance for providing arms and ammunition for the...
  • “Ordinances Directions and Instructions to Captaine John Woodleefe” by...
  • The Original Jamestown Settlers; an excerpt from The Generall...
  • Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis Otey (1880–1974)
  • “Our massa Jefferson he say” by Anonymous (September 1,...
  • Littleton Owens (ca. 1842–March 11, 1894)

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