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Conflict Americas

Anglo-Powhatan Wars

1610 CE – 1646 CE · 36 years

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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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • English Virginia colonists
  • Powhatan Confederacy

Key moments

Defining events in the Anglo-Powhatan Wars.

  1. 1610-1614 First Anglo-Powhatan War
  2. Indian Massacre of 1622
  3. 1644-1646 Third Anglo-Powhatan War

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