Resisting Invasion Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 5/29/2015
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is one of a series along the beautiful Warhill Sports Complex multi-use trail commemorating those who influenced the English settlement of James City County, and by extension, the United States. The trail is 3.5 miles long, but has many exit and entrance locations, which you can find here.

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Opechancanough was the younger brother of Powhatan. He first makes his appearance in the story of Jamestown colony shortly after the English landed, when he arrested John Smith while Smith was exploring the Chesapeake in 1607. After using a number of shamans to determine his intentions, he brought Smith to Powhatan for final disposition. Powhatan let Smith go. Later in 1608, Smith and Captain Christopher Newport met with Powhatan and Opechancanough to make arrangements for food sharing. As Powhatan aged, Opechancanough, already a seasoned leader, assumed more and more of the governance of the Powhatans. After Powhatan died in 1618, their other brother, Opitchapam, a weak leader, assumed the role of parapmount chief. However, historians say that it was Opechancanough who primarily negotiated with the English. In 1622, Opechancanough orchestrated an attack on the colonists, intending to drive them back to England. It failed. Sometime between that attack and 1630, he succeeeded his brother as paramount chief, the last great Powhatan Chief. He tried attacking the British again in 1644, but the British had an even stronger foothold by then to repel the attack. The British captured him in 1646 and he was shot by a guard two weeks after his capture.
Some have tried to link Opechancanough to Don Luis of Ajacan fame, but leading Virginia Algonquian scholars believe that to be unlikely.
To learn more about Opechancanough, please use the "related web page" link at the top of the cache page to visit an article submitted by Virginia Algonquian scholar, Helen Rountree, to Encyclopedia Virginia.
There's a clue for GC5WHK9 in this cache.

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Because the trail is set in a wildlife conservation area, please take special care to not disturb the vegetation (or the wildlife!). The caches are set up to be easy for you to find. If your coordinates indicate that a cache is in a tree, please check the foot of the tree first, then along the trunk. Caches will never be out along the branches or in shrubs or bushes. If it takes more than a minute or two to find the cache, please check the hint. The trail is open from 7 am until sunset.

Thanks to James City County for keeping up such a beautiful trail and letting us cache here!

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