page_title: List of conflicts in North America
section_title: 17th century
hierarchical_section_title: List of conflicts in North America / Northern America / United States / 17th century
caption_attribution_description: English: Engraving captioned "The Burning of Jamestown" showing the burning of Jamestown during Bacon's Rebellion (1676). From Illustrated School History of the United States and the Adjacent Parts of America: from the Earliest Discoveries to the Present Time (1857) available at the Internet Archive.
context_page_description: This is a list of conflicts in North America. This list includes all countries starting northward from Northern America, southward to Mesoamerica and the Caribbean and further south to Central America. Conflicts are ordered by geographic regions of North America ranging from north to south, and then arranged chronologically from the Pre-Columbian era to the postcolonial period. This list includes the following: wars of independence, liberation wars, colonial wars, undeclared wars, proxy wars, territorial disputes, and world wars. Also listed might be any battle that was itself only part of an operation of a campaign of a theater of a war. There may also be periods of violent civil unrest listed, such as: riots, shootouts, spree killings, massacres, terrorist attacks, and civil wars. The list might also contain episodes of: human sacrifice, mass suicide, and genocides.
context_section_description: This covers all conflicts in the 1600s that occurred between rival European Colonial Powers, or between Colonists and their Colonial Administration. This section does not include conflicts regarding Native Americans.
  August 27, 1664 The annexation of New Netherland by the English
  English conquest of New Amsterdam (New York City)
  1672–1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War
  August 1673 The Dutch recaptured New Netherland
  November 1674 The Treaty of Westminster concluded the war and ceded New Netherland to the English
  1676 Bacon's Rebellion
  September 1688 – September 1697 Nine Years' War
  June 27, 1689 Raid on Dover
  August 2–3, 1689 Siege of Pemaquid
  March 27, 1690 Raid on Salmon Falls
  May 20–21, 1690 Battle of Fort Loyal
  January 24, 1692 Raid on York
  June 10–13, 1692 Raid on Wells
  July 18, 1694 Raid on Oyster River
  August 14–15, 1696 Siege of Pemaquid
  March 15, 1697 Raid on Haverhill
caption: The Burning of Jamestown, Virginia by Bacon's Rebellion. Common Indentured Servants and African Slaves fought together against the government  of Colonial Virginia.  The Rebellion's failure caused a hardening of racial lines in Colonial English America.
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