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Article: Editor's note.(Brief Article)
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- Cobblestone
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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Fewer than seventy years after the founding of Jamestown in 1607, the English settlement was burned and destroyed -- by Englishmen who lived there. What could have caused this terrible event that pitted Virginia's citizens against one another?
In 1676, a young Englishman named Nathaniel Bacon became the leader of a group of farmers. The men had organized in an effort to protect their homes and property on the Virginia frontier from raiding Indians. The governor of Virginia, Sir William Berkeley, failed to provide an adequate defense for the colony's outlying areas. So the workers formed their own small army. In the course of unfolding events, Bacon and his ...