Today is the 400^th anniversary of the Powhatan Indian Attack, a watershed event in the history of the early English settlement along both sides of the James River. Nearly a quarter of the entire English population in Virginia was killed. This well-planned, coordinated attack resulted from numerous causes and had a lasting impact on the direction of English-Indian relations in colonial America.

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