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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Imperialism. (search)
Opechancanough, -1644
Brother of Powhatan, was King of Pamunkey when the English first landed in Virginia.
He was born about 1552, and nown to the English as the captor of John Smith in the forest.
Opechancanough would have killed him immediately, but for Smith's presence of ars—how the sun chased the night around the earth continually.
Opechancanough regarded him as a superior being, and women and children stared ian's capital, until he was placed in the custody of Powhatan.
Opechancanough attended the marriage of his niece, Pocahontas, at Jamestown.
But just at that time a fearful cloud of trouble was brooding.
Opechancanough could command about 1,500 warriors.
He hated the English bitte stility between the races continued for more than twenty years. Opechancanough lived, and had been nursing his wrath all that time, prudence a mpetent armed force, and drove them back with great slaughter.
Opechancanough was made a prisoner, and carried in triumph to Jamestown.
He w
Powhatan Indians,
A branch of the Algonquian family, which composed a confederacy of about thirty bands, including the Accohannocks and Accomacs, on the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay.
Their sagamore was Powhatan (q. v.). After Powhatan's death his people made two attempts (1622, 1644) to exterminate the English, but they themselves were so weakened by the contest that the confederacy fell in pieces at the death of Opechancanough, Powhatan's brother and successor.
Of all that once great confederacy in lower Virginia, not one representative, it is believed, exists on earth, nor one tongue speaks the dialect.
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 4 : (search)
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 5 : (search)
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter VI (search)
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXII (search)