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What Role Did Chief Opechancanough Play In The American Revolution

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Chief Opechancanough was a tribal chief of the Powhatan Indians of what is now Virginia in the United States, and its leader from sometime after 1618 until his death in 1646. The increasing number of English settlements in the area was making the Indians fearful and angry because of the loss of their hunting grounds. In 1622, Opechancanough led an attack on the settlements outside Jamestown, killing 347 colonists. Then in 1644, Opechancanough led one last uprising, killing 500 more colonists. This time, however, he was captured. Later he was killed at Jamestown which being the outcome of forcing the Indians to sign a peace treaty. Benjamin Church was born in 1639 Plymouth Colony. He was the captain of the first Ranger force in America. Church …show more content…
Pitt was a quite intelligent in both commercial and military strategy, and planned to weakening France by seizing its colonies. The more colonies that were seized the less the french have in resources and man power. Mystic River is in Massachusetts, United States. The river played a role in the American Revolution in, 1774, an army of 260 British soldiers rowed from Boston up to the Mystic River near Winter Hill.From there, they marched to a storage area where a large supply of gunpowder was kept, and after sunrise they took all the gunpowder, sparking a uprising known as the Powder Alarm. In 1775, the Battle of Chelsea Creek took place in the river watershed. Major General Edward Braddock led an army of 1500 British solders to Fort Duquesne in 1755 to take the fort from the French and strengthen British positions in the Ohio Valley and the Great Lakes region. As Major General Braddock came near the fort they suddenly met up with the French and Indian allies of the French. With Braddock underestimating the french led to defeat and his …show more content…
The Native Americans lived in the Appalachian Mountains and Mississippi River which were controlled by Britain and they were pushing the Native Americans out. The Indians were angry because that was their land. Basically everyone was fighting over land and the resources. The advantages the Indians had was the land. The Indians knew the land like the back of their hand, but there weapons weren't as effective then the French and the British. The French had a different type of fighting style then the British that through them off which got them some victories, but they didn't have much man power. The British had a lot of man power, but the in a line fighting style against the french and the Indians wouldn't going to cut it. The fighting style the French and the Indians fought was much different then what the English are use to. They used the Guerrilla warfare tactics to ambush the British as they march in rows, which made the English an easy target. The English won because they gave Prussian enough money to help them. Th e English spent a lot of money to get help and buy resources and the French couldn't compete with

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