When Bacon suddenly died in October, probably of dysentery, Bacon's Rebellion fizzled out. Bacon's Rebellion demonstrated that poor whites and poor blacks could be united in a cause.

On Sept. 19, 1676, Nathaniel Bacon led a siege on Jamestown, ... “We have positive evidence of Bacon’s Rebellion and the burning that took place,” Givens said.

Thomas Mathew, a merchant-planter from Northumberland County, was here when Nathaniel Bacon put a torch to the Anglican church. He watched as two of Bacon’s rebellious compatriots set their own ...

History tells us Bacon's Rebellion was an armed revolt in 1676. A rash of Indian attacks and other issues motivated an uprising led by Nathaniel Bacon against Gov. Berkeley, Lord Proprietor of the ...

Today is Monday, Jan. 2, the second day of 2006, with 363 to follow. Nathaniel Bacon (c. 1640s – October 26, 1676) was a wealthy colonist of the Virginia Colony, famous as the instigator of ...

TALES FROM A REVOLUTION: BACON’S REBELLION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF EARLY AMERICA By James D. Rice Oxford University Press, $24.95, 280 pages Bacon’s Rebellion (1676-1677) is one of my ...

After Bacon died of dysentery, the rebellion collapsed and was quelled by forces loyal to the Governor. Robert Dunkerly talked about the causes of Nathaniel Bacon’s violent uprising against the ...

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Bacon's Rebellion 1675 - 1676: ... This was the unequivocal view of Nathaniel Bacon, a young, wealthy Englishman who had recently settled in the backcountry of Virginia.

While historians have well-documented accounts of Nathaniel Bacon’s 1676 siege of Jamestown, ... What: Bacon’s Rebellion Walking Tour, Part I and II. When: 11 a.m. to noon and 2 to 3 p.m ...