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- Title: Terms of Reference (Eyes Right) (Will of the People and Political Power) (Viewpoint Essay)
- Author : Investigate
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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IN 1676 NATHANIEL BACON, A tobacco farmer from the upper reaches of the James River in Virginia, led a rebellion against the colonial regime of King Charles I's Governor, Sir William Berkeley. Berkeley, a favourite of the King, had failed repeatedly to deliver on a promise to provide protection to the colonists from attacks by local Indians. The colonists, their patience expired, went to the capital and extracted a commission from the Colonial Assembly to deal with the Natives themselves, at the point of 400 muskets. Further frustrated by inaction on the part of the Governor, the rebels, led by Bacon--who happened to be the Governor's wife's cousin--marched on Jamestown in force, sacked the capital and burned it to the ground, and drove Berkeley and his forces out of town and across the river before looting his house. Bacon's Rebellion petered out when Bacon died of malaria on October 26th, with the Governor returning to power, hanging some two dozen former rebels, and seizing their property. But things ended badly for Berkeley as well, removed from office and recalled to England by Charles II, who was less than impressed by his Vice-Regal's behaviour. The disgraced Berkeley died in May of the following year, as history recalls, "a half a world away from the place which had become his home."