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    The Beaver Wars (Mohawk: Tsianì kayonkwere), also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars (French: Guerres franco-iroquoises) were a...
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    Beavers (genus Castor) are large, semiaquatic rodents of the Northern Hemisphere. There are two existing species: the North American beaver (Castor canadensis)...
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    elaborated on this view, arguing that the Beaver Wars were an escalation of the Iroquoian tradition of "Mourning Wars". This view suggests that the Iroquois...
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    contact the Mohawks had with Europeans. This incident also sparked the Beaver Wars. In the seventeenth century, the Mohawk encountered both the Dutch, who...
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  • Seven Years' War and the aftermath of which led to the American Revolution. The French and Indian Wars were preceded by the Beaver Wars. In Quebec, the...
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    Iroquois Confederacy began a series of escalating wars setting Indian versus Indian called the Beaver Wars—that ultimately would open up the frontier to white...
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    Petun (section Beaver Wars)
    raiding parties against the smaller tribes in 1648–1649 as part of the Beaver Wars associated with the lucrative fur trade, and virtually destroyed them...
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    with the powerful neighboring Iroquois for helping the Huron in the Beaver Wars for control of the fur trade. Captured survivors were adopted or enslaved...
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    North American fur trade (category Pemmican War)
    near destruction of the Huron by 1650. During the 1640s and 1650s, the Beaver Wars initiated by the Iroquois forced a massive demographic shift as their...
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    series of conflicts with downstream millers later dubbed "the Muskrat and Beaver Wars", giving them the right to prevent a dam from being built on the drainage...
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    of Iroquois expansion into the Ohio Country in the aftermath of the Beaver Wars. The term "Osage" is a French version of the tribe's name, which can...
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    February 22, 2023. Retrieved February 22, 2023. "Beaver wars: Buc-ee's takes on rival store in Beaver logo dispute". Houston Chronicle. July 16, 2014....
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    Mfecane (redirect from Wars of Calamity)
    historiography over the Mfecane has been compared to similar debates about the Beaver Wars of the seventeenth century in northeastern North America, due to the...
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    The Lachine massacre, part of the Beaver Wars, occurred when 1,500 Mohawk warriors launched a surprise attack against the small (375 inhabitants) settlement...
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    The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires...
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    adoption of Indigenous guerrilla tactics by its military professionals. The Beaver Wars (1609-1701) were intermittent conflicts involving the Iroquois Confederacy...
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  • The second season of the American television situation comedy Leave It to Beaver premiered on October 2, 1958 and concluded on June 25, 1959. It consisted...
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  • The third season of the American television situation comedy Leave It to Beaver premiered on October 3, 1959 and concluded on June 25, 1960. It consisted...
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    1680, due to conflicts with the powerful Mohawk to the west during the Beaver Wars, many were driven southeastward across the present-day Massachusetts...
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    The Carnatic wars were a series of military conflicts in the middle of the 18th century in India's coastal Carnatic region, a dependency of Hyderabad State...
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    stature that were nearly wiped out by the Iroquois in the 1640s during the Beaver Wars. The remnants of this race were taken in by the Ojibwe and still exist...
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  • The fourth season of the American television situation comedy Leave It to Beaver premiered on October 1, 1960 and concluded on June 24, 1961. It consisted...
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    Battle of Sorel (category Battles of the Beaver Wars)
    with the Mohawks for twenty years. The Battle of Sorel was part of the Beaver Wars, which pitted the nations of the Iroquois confederation, led by the dominant...
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    Beaver Wars in the 1650s. French forces traversed the territory beginning in 1615. The Seneca Nation conquered the territory during the Beaver Wars and...
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    Canada. c. 1640: Beavers and otters nearly exterminated in Iroquois country. To expand territory, Iroquois launch decades-long "Beaver Wars" against Huron...
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  • known as Wendake (Huronia), conquered and devastated in the 17th century Beaver Wars, which prompted the surviving Hurons to move east to Quebec, under French...
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    The more powerful Seneca eliminated these competing groups during the Beaver Wars beginning in 1638, as the Iroquois Confederacy sought to control the...
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    Forbes Expedition (category Battles of the French and Indian War)
    Path Beaver Wars Susquehannock peoples Erie peoples Shawnee The Iroquois, from the early 1610s to the 1620s, began a decades long series of wars with...
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    the Beaver Wars, beginning in 1632. The Five Nations' use of modern weapons caused the wars to become deadlier. Historians consider the Beaver Wars to...
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    portal North America portal American Indian Wars Colonial American military history French and Indian Wars Military history of Canada Military history...
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