"Bacon's Rebellion: America's First Revolutionary?" Topic

"Nathaniel Bacon was caught in a dilemma on a hot July day in 1676. The settlers' avowed enemy, the Susquehannocks and their allies, were in front of him in the upper counties of Virginia while Governor William Berkeley's English army and militia were getting ready to attack Bacon from the rear. Hundreds of landowners, indentured servants, slaves and other volunteers making up Bacon's army waited for orders.

Ever the strategist, the 29-year-old rebel addressed his army, "Gentlemen and fellow soldiers, the news just brought to me may not a little startle you as well as myselfe. The Governour is now in Gloster County endeavouring to raise forces against us, having declared us Rebells and Traytors…. They had rather wee should be Murder'd and our Ghosts sent to our slaughter'd Countrymen by their actings, than we should live to hinder them of their Interest with the Heathen."

The aristocratic plantation owner and self-declared "General by Consent of the People" turned his army back to Jamestown—better to attack the Governor at once than have him hit them from the rear while engaged in the woods with the tribes…"
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Armand

Bacon's Rebellion was very complex and interpretations of it are all over the place. It is not clear whether Bacon was the good guy or the bad guy, ditto Governor Berkeley. I would be very reluctant to describe him as having much relationship to 1776.

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Armand

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