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Indian Warfare
The Powhatan Confederacy nearly wiped out the struggling Jamestown colony. -
The Pequot War
In New England, Puritan forces annihilated the Pequots. -
Extermination
Employing Indian auxiliaries and a scorched-earth policy, the English colonists nearly exterminated the Narragansetts, Wampanoags, and Nipmucks -
Just A Little Bacon
Nathaniel Bacon and a group of vigilantes destroyed the Pamunkey Indians before leading an unsuccessful revolt against colonial authorities -
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French and Indian War
One of the America's most hard fought wars of that time. The French and Indians teamed together to fight the British. The result was a British victory and the Treaty of Paris. -
Proclamation of 1763
King George III following Great Britain's gain of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War, issued this Proclamation, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Rebellion
Ottawa chief, Pontiac, forged a powerful confederation against British expansion into the Old Northwest. -
1777
Indians who sided with the crown joined the Tories and the British in the unsuccessful offensives of John Burgoyne and Barry St. Leger in upstate New York. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America ended the American Revolutionary War -
Ambush
650 Colorado volunteer forces attacked a Cheyenne and Arapaho encampment along Sand Creek. Although they had already begun to peace negotiations with the U.S. government, more than 150 Native Americans were killed. -
1973
Protesters temporarily seized control of Wounded Knee, the major Indian-white conflicts in the United States had ended. Militarily, several trends had become apparent. New technology often gave the whites a temporary advantage.
