Wars – Freeport History Timeline

Samuel de Champlain and a group of Algonquin, Huron, and Montagnais battle a group of Mohawk Iroquois, Lake Champlain is discovered

kip — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 04:17:27 +0000

Etching of Champlain’s own drawing of the battle

– Kills 2 chiefs with his opening shot

– Sets off a long period of French / Algonquin, Huron, and Montagnais collaboration as well as French / Iroquois contention

– Presently near Fort Ticonderoga, Ticonderoga NY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Champlain

https://www.independencetrail.org/stories-champlains-battle.html

The Mohawk / Mahican War ends

kip — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 03:06:35 +0000

c 1624 – c 1628

The Pequot War begins

kip — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 23:32:22 +0000

c 1634 – c 1638

A conflict between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of English from the Massachusetts Bay, Plymoth, Saybrook colonies and their Indian allies, the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes

John Underhill is Captain of the Massachusetts Bay colony militia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pequot_War

The Pequot War ends

kip — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:48:10 +0000

c 1638

After 600 to 700 Pequots are massacred at Mystic they abandon their land and villages in small bands

English officials call for the remaining Pequot to be hunted down months after the war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pequot_War

Kieft War begins

kip — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 02:30:18 +0000

c 1643 – c 1645

After a Swiss immigrant is killed by a Weckquaesgeek acquaintance over a personal matter in 1641 Director General Willem Kieft uses the lack of the Weckquaesgeek to produce a suspect as justification for attacks on Weckquaesgeek and Tappan refugee camps.

– On February 25, 1643, Dutch soldiers kill 129 Indians including women and children at Communipaw (Jersey CIty) during the Pavonia Massacre

– Fall that same year a force of 1,500 natives invades New Netherland, kills many, destroys villages and farms

– Englishman John Underhill, hired by Kieft, kills 500-700 Weckquaesgeek that winter, in retaliation

– Underhill recruits militia on Long Island and kills about 1000 natives there and in Connecticut

– Heavy fighting continues for two years while many Dutch settlers return to Europe

– Both sides agree to a truce in August, 1645

– In 1647 Kieft is fired by the West India Company, recalled to explain his conduct and dies in a shipwreck on the return voyage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieft%27s_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_John_Underhill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavonia_Massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Kieft

Kieft War ends

kip — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 02:36:29 +0000

c 1643 – c 1645

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieft%27s_War

The American Revolutionary War begins

kip — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 01:22:58 +0000

– Local militias exchange fire with British troops near Boston in the Battles of Lexington and Concord

Depiction of the Battle of Lexington

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War

The American Revolutionary War ends

kip — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 01:26:55 +0000

– The Treaty of Paris is signed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1783)

The American Civil War begins

kip — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 01:09:19 +0000

– Confederates fire upon Union forces at Fort Sumpter in South Carolina

The American Civil War ends

kip — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 01:15:07 +0000

– General Lee surrenders to General Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia