Jamestown (The Keepers of the Ring) (58 page)

T
he lives of Fallon and Gilda, keepers of the ring, continued in a distant country, but the war between the English of Jamestown and Opechancanough persisted for many more years.

Opechancanough
’s attack upon the English is now considered by many to be the most brilliantly conceived, planned, and executed uprising in the history of the American Indians. For several months after that Good Friday in 1622, Opechancanough believed that he had won a major victory, even urging the King of the Potomac Indians to wipe out a trading party upon his river. Opechancanough assured this chief that “before the end of two moons there should not be an Englishman” in all their countries.

But the retaliation of the English was fierce and relentless.
More Indians were killed in 1622 than had been killed in all the years combined between the founding of Jamestown and Opechancanough’s massacre. From August 1622 until 1632, the English war of revenge continued until the Indians were forced out of the peninsula between the James and York Rivers. Because they were forced from their villages and fields, more Indians died of starvation during those years than at the hands of the English.

The final act of the great chief
’s war took place in Jamestown in 1644 when the one-hundred-year-old Opechancanough, finally taken captive, was paraded down the street and shot in the back by an English soldier.

Other Books by Angela Hunt

Roanoke

Jamestown

Hartford

Rehoboth

Charles Towne

Magdalene

The Novelist

Uncharted

The Awakening

The Debt

The Elevator

The Face

Let Darkness Come

Unspoken

The Justice

The Note

The Immortal

The Truth Teller

The Silver Sword

The Golden Cross

The Velvet Shadow

The Emerald Isle

Dreamers

Brothers

Journey

The Shadow Women

Doesn’t She Look Natural?

She Always Wore Red

She’s In a Better Place

Five Miles South of Peculiar

The Offering

The Fine Art of Insincerity

Web page: www.angelahuntbooks.com

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Christy-Award winner Angela Hunt writes for readers who expect the unexpected in novels. With nearly five million copies of her books sold worldwide, she is the best-selling author of more than 125 works ranging from picture books (
The Tale of Three Trees)
to novels.

Now that her two children have reached their twenties, Angela and her husband live in Florida with Very Big Dogs (a direct result of watching
Turner and Hooch
and
Sandlot
too many times). This affinity for mastiffs has not been without its rewards—one of their dogs was featured on
Live with Regis and Kelly
as the second-largest canine in America. Their dog received this dubious honor after an all-expenses-paid trip to Manhattan for the dog and the Hunts, complete with VIP air travel and a stretch limo in which they toured New York City.

Afterward, the dog gave out pawtographs at the airport.

Angela admits to being fascinated by animals, medicine, unexplained phenomena, and “just about everything” except sports. Books, she says, have always shaped her life— in the fifth grade she learned how to flirt from reading
Gone with the Wind
.

When she
’s not home writing, Angela often travels to teach writing workshops at schools and writers’ conferences. And to talk about her dogs, of course.

Readers may visit her web site at
www.angelahuntbooks.com
.

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Jamestown, First English Colony.
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Everyday Life in Early America.
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Dispossessing the American Indian.
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America Firsthand, Volume I: Settlement to Reconstruction.
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Five Remarkable Englishmen.
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American Ships of the Colonial and Revolutionary Period.
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A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada.
Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.

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The First Colonists: Documents on the Planting of the First English Settlements in North America 1584-1590.
  Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.

White, Jon Manchip, 1979. 
Everyday Life of the American Indian.
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