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Nathaniel Bacon (born January 2, 1647, Suffolk, England—died October 1676, Virginia [U.S.]) was a Virginia planter and leader of Bacon’s Rebellion (1676), the first popular revolt in England’s North American colonies.
Nathaniel Bacon (January 3 , 1647 – October 26, 1676) was an English merchant adventurer who emigrated to the Virginia Colony, where he sat on the Governor's Council but later led Bacon's Rebellion.
Nov 20, 2023 · Nathaniel Bacon was the controversial leader of the first organized uprising against English officials in the colonies — Bacon’s Rebellion. Bacon was a wealthy plantation owner from Suffolk, England who was educated as a lawyer in London.
Dec 22, 2021 · Nathaniel Bacon was a member of the governor’s Council and, in 1676, a leader of Bacon’s Rebellion (1676–1677), a dramatic uprising against the governor that ended with Bacon’s sudden death. Bacon was born and educated in England and moved to Virginia with his wife in 1674.
Nathaniel Bacon, (born Jan. 2, 1647, Suffolk, Eng.—died October 1676, Virginia Colony), British-born American colonial planter, leader of Bacon’s Rebellion. He emigrated from England in 1673 and acquired land in Virginia, where he was appointed to the council of William Berkeley, the British governor.
Mar 3, 2021 · Bacon’s Rebellion (1676) was the first full-scale armed insurrection in Colonial America pitting the landowner Nathaniel Bacon (l. 1647-1676) and his supporters of black and white indentured servants...
A man named Nathaniel Bacon, along with an army of about 150 colonists, gleefully watched it burn to “cinders and ashes.” How did the situation in Virginia get so bad that the king’s subjects set fire to the colony’s capital?
