🏛️ Blunt Poynt

Other · Other · 37.06°N, 76.52°W

Blunt Poynt is a historic site located on the north shore of the James River near or in the modern-day Hidenwood neighborhood of Newport News, Virginia. It is named for an incident on July 1610. Sir Thomas Gates was going down the river, and observed an adrift longboat from Fort Algernon near Old Point Comfort. Gates sent Humphrey Blunt to retrieve the boat, but Blunt was ambushed and killed by Nansemond Indians while Gates observed. In retaliation, just a few days later, Gates would seize the native village of Kecoughtan, Virginia. These events were early conflicts leading up to the Anglo-Powhatan Wars

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Country	Other
Continent / region	Other
Coordinates (approx.)	37.06°N, 76.52°W · view on map

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