He destroyed Indian towns, until a peace settlement ended the First Anglo-Powhatan War in 1614, sealed by a marriage between Pocahontas to colonist John Rolfe. 3. ... Virginia Company declared war in the Indians. Indians were driven westward. 4. 1644- Second Anglo-Powhatan War, Indians were again defeated. ... Colonists wanted Indian land. ... The Indians" New World 1. ...
When the war was finally brought to an end, the French Colonial Empire had ceded Quebec, the former New France, to Britain; so the British Empire finally established its hegemony in North America. ... An all-out independent war spreading over the entire North American Continent seemed predictable because the habitants, early French settlers in Canada, were from Britain's archenemy France; nevertheless, the Province of Quebec did not rise up against Britain. ... Moreover, French-speaking residents were generally Catholics, for whom the protestant Continental Army had little respect due to ...
The delegates were unhappy with England, but were not yet ready to declare war. ... The battle of Concord and its "shot heard round the world" would mark the unofficial beginning of the colonies war for Independence. ... For almost a year the congress tried to work out its differences with England, again without formally declaring war. ... He has abdicated Government here by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. ... He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages...
