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During this war, Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr introduced "Irish Tactics", where his troops raided Indian villages, burned houses, confiscated provisions, and torched cornfields. However, the Native American Pamunkey warriors, led by Opechancanough counter-attacked, and laid siege to the fort at Jamestown. He and his warriors nearly succeeded in driving the English out of the Jamestown area, when Captain John Smith was injured in an accidental gunpowder explosion, and sailed back to England. But British reinforcements arrived to raise the siege, re-capture the initiative and lead a devastating raid against the Pamunkeys. A peace settlement ended the war in 1614, and it was sealed by the marriage of Pocahontas to the colonist John Rolfe . This was the first known inter-racial union in Virginia . EXTERNAL LINK ADDITIONAL SOURCES Steve Rajtar's book, "Indian War Sites" (McFarland and Company, Inc., 1999) |