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02.41 - The Feigned Mask of Friendship

Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

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The Confederacy and the Battle of Virginia

Opetrincano was of the pamonke, a confederacy of multiple tribal nations who spoke an eastern algonquin language. The virginians first targeted the pemonkeys as well as the chickahominies in a series of raids which burned down buildings and crops. Then they targeted the nancemond, the appomatock, the wayanoke and the actual powatan tribe. Harrison would end up serving oliver cromwell as his chaplain in the near future.

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