Jamestown Massacre: Algonquians Kill 347 English Settlers
Powhatan warriors launched a coordinated surprise attack across multiple English settlements near Jamestown, killing 347 colonists in a single morning. The massacre eliminated a third of Virginia's English population and shattered any pretense of coexistence, triggering decades of retaliatory warfare that ultimately dispossessed the Powhatan Confederacy of its ancestral lands.
March 22, 1622
404 years ago
Key Figures & Places
England
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Jamestown, Virginia
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Indian massacre of 1622
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Algonquian
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Third Anglo-Powhatan War
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Algonquian
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England
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Powhatan
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Jamestown, Virginia
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Anglo-Powhatan Wars
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Colony of Virginia
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Indian massacre of 1622
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Algonquian peoples
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Opechancanough
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Língua algonquina
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