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Anglo-Powhatan Wars

1610 CE – 1646 CE

Three wars between English settlers at Jamestown and the Powhatan Confederacy of Virginia. The conflicts ended Powhatan power and established English colonial dominance in the Chesapeake Bay region.

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17th-century conflicts between Virginia colonists and Algonquian Indians

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Anglo-Powhatan Wars

1610 CE – 1646 CE

Three wars between English settlers at Jamestown and the Powhatan Confederacy of Virginia. The conflicts ended Powhatan power and established English colonial dominance in the Chesapeake Bay region.

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