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Article: "Swarthy monarchs".(Colonial Williamsburg collection incudes prints of portraits made in England of four Native American ' Kings')(Brief Article)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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It is hard to imagine which would have been the more astonishing sight--London of 1710 to the four American Indian kings who went there on a visit to the queen, Anne, or the four "swarthy monarchs" themselves in their picturesque finery, whom Londoners swarmed by the thousands to see. The trip to London was organized in part to make amends to the Iroquois--a confederacy of the Cayugas, Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, and Senecas--for failing to provide them with needed naval support in an aborted expedition against the French in the North American colonies in 1709. However, Sir Francis Nicholson, formerly colonial governor of Maryland and Virginia, who organized the visit, ...