Daily Archives for 15 April 2014


April 15: The War That Nearly Ended the British Colonies

On 15 April 1715, the Yemassee Indians massacred Indian agents sent to their village to solve the Indians’ grievances. This set in motion a three year war between warriors from virtually every nation in the South and the British colonists. Trouble between American Indians and the European colonists was nothing new. Europeans, intent on settling […]