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1647Jan, 2

Nathaniel Bacon (Virginia colonist and rebel)

Nathaniel Bacon, English-American rebel leader (d. 1676)
Nathaniel Dee Bacon (January 2, 1647 – October 26, 1676) was a colonist of the Virginia Colony, famous as the instigator of Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, which collapsed when Bacon himself died from dysentery.

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