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The Burning of Jamestown

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When Bacon got control of Jamestown, then a mere village of some sixteen to eighteen houses, he burned it to prevent its falling into Berkeley's hands. The people's leader had been successful, and had risked his life and his fortune for the common rights. But the strain of the past four or five months in the malarial swamps broke down his health, and after a short illness, he died of fever at the home of a friend, in October, 1676.

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Project Gutenberg's American Leaders and Heroes, by Wilbur Fisk Gordy Published 1907
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