The Indian massacre of 1622 (also known as the Jamestown Massacre) occurred in the Virginia Colony on Good Friday, March 22, 1622. About 347 people, or almost one-third of the English population of Jamestown, were killed by a coordinated series of surprise attacks of the Powhatan Confederacy under Chief Opechancanough.
Jamestown was the site of the first successful English settlement in North America in 1607, and was the capital of the Colony of Virginia. Although Jamestown itself was spared due to a timely last-minute warning, many smaller settlements had been established along the James River both upstream and downstream from it and on both sides. The attackers killed men, women, and children, and burned homes and crops.
I can’t imagine why they might want to get rid of the indians in the area (rolling eyes)....
Stop buying the PC crap... The indians by and large were violent savages.
Don’t forget King Philip’s War, beginning in 1675, an Indian attack at Plymouth Colony a year later and eventually spreading to Rhode Island by 1677. More than 600 colonists, 3000 Indians and 12 villages were destroyed.
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You presume too much.