Significant1610 – 1646 · 36 years

Anglo-Powhatan Wars

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Jamestown · Tidewater Virginia

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

A series of three conflicts (1610-1646) between English settlers of the Virginia Colony and the Powhatan Confederacy, including the surprise attack of 1622 that killed hundreds of colonists; the wars ended with the defeat of the Powhatan and their subjugation under colonial authority.

Belligerents2

English Virginia colonists
Powhatan Confederacy

ON THE MAPPowhatan Confederacy

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 3

Battle of Jamestown1622
Battle of Pamunkey1625
Battle of York River, Virginia1644

Sources

Wikipedia: Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Gleach, Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Anglo-Powhatan Wars (1610 – 1646). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/anglo-powhatan-wars · Sources & methodology