biography
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Berkeley, Sir William
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| male
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| lived:
| (1606–77)
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| biography:
| Colonial governor, born in Somerset, SW England, UK. He became governor of Virginia (1642), led militia against the colony's remaining Indian tribes, organized a defence that prevented a Dutch landing on the Virginia coast (1665), and ruthlessly put down a settlers' rebellion (1676). |
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