The English civil war in America
I tried looking at this subject a couple of years ago but was unable to come up with anything definitive. This looks a lot more like it.
http://www.ecwsa.org/English_Civil_W...n_Colonies.pdf
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Whilst clashes between Marylanders and Virginians in the 1630s had
been about local rivalries what made the ‘Battle of Blanck Point’ significant
was not that it was the first armed clash between Englishmen in America but
resulting from events in England rather than in the colonies. Unfortunately,
the significance was not lost on the local Powhatan Indians who witnessed
this clash between English ships. 16 Armed with the knowledge that across
the Atlantic the English were at war with themselves, Pocahontas’ uncle
sachem Opchanacanough launched a pre-emptive strike against the Virginia
colonists on 18 April 1644 killing between 300-400 settlers.
Wow, that is an awful lot of folks for the colonies at that time. :book:
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66 pages was a tad too long for me to read. :creep:
I have little no knowledge about the English civil war in America. It is weird to think that an event which I had hitherto only thought of as a European event, played out in America too. From now on, whenever I think of Cromwell I shall think of Pocahontas.
What I take away from this thread, is the (re)realisation that America has two long centuries of history as outlying English provinces. The Americas are always older than one would think: Americans can claim Shakespeare and Elisabeth as their compatriots, their fellow Englanders.
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Most of this is never mentioned in American History or if it is it is in a different context.
The popular myth is that America was a place of religious tolerance and discussion of this period would be anything but.
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Louis VI the Fat
66 pages was a tad too long for me to read. :creep:
I have little no knowledge about the English civil war in America. It is weird to think that an event which I had hitherto only thought of as a European event, played out in America too. From now on, whenever I think of Cromwell I shall think of Pocahontas.
What I take away from this thread, is the (re)realisation that America has two long centuries of history as outlying English provinces. The Americas are always older than one would think: Americans can claim Shakespeare and Elisabeth as their compatriots, their fellow Englanders.
Wasn't The Tempest based off of the discovery of Bermuda which happened while a ship was on it's way to Virginia?
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Well, that's a widely held theory, though some scholars dispute it. Bermuda had already been discovered anyway.
