In the end the red men were routed.

Some were slain; some were taken prisoner; others escaped into the deep woods stretching westward.
In the meantime another force of horsemen had been gathered.

It was headed by Berkeley and was addressed to the pursuit and apprehension of Nathaniel Bacon, who had thus defied authority.

But before Berkeley could move far, fire broke out around him.

The grievances of the people were many and just, and not without a family resemblance to those that precipitated the Revolution a hundred years later.