By Christopher Miskimon
English settlers arrived in North America and established the Jamestown colony in 1607. They hoped for fortune growing tobacco and maintained difficult relations with the Powhatan Confederacy. The native leader, Chief Opechancanough, became concerned as each year, more English colonists arrived and their power grew. In 1622, he launched an attack on Jamestown which killed 347 English colonists in a day, a full third of the colonial population. Despite the heavy loss, the attack proved only the first battle in a decade-long war.
This new volume in Osprey’s Campaign series examines one of North America’s first conflicts between English settlers and Native Americans. It is thoroughly researched and readable, introducing all the major personalities and actions of the conflict. The book contains several pieces of original art and excellent maps.
Jamestown 1622: The Anglo-Powhatan Wars (Cameron Colby, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, UK, 2024, 96 pp., maps, photographs, bibliography, index, $25, SC)
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