Starving Time
British-North American colonial history
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history of Jamestown Colony
- In Jamestown Colony: The Starving Time and near abandonment (1609–11)
In the autumn of 1609, after Smith left, Chief Powhatan began a campaign to starve the English out of Virginia. The tribes under his rule stopped bartering for food and carried out attacks on English parties that came in…
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