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{{Infobox Military Person
|name= Miles Standish
|image=[[Image:MylesStandish.gif]]
|caption= Myles Standish from 1625-1634?
|nickname= Captain Shrimp
|rank= [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]]
|branch= [[Image:Flag of the British Army.svg|23px]] [[British Army]]
|serviceyears= British Army 1601-1618, Plymouth Colony 1620-1656
(contracted; show full)to the Merchant Adventurers. Rather than strengthening their position, Standish's raid had disastrous consequences for the colony, a fact noted by William Bradford, who in a letter to the Merchant Adventurers noted "[W]e had much damaged our trade, for there where we had [the] most skins the Indians are run away from their habitations..." However, one positive effect of Standish's raid was the increased power of the Massasoit-led Wampanoag, the Pilgrims' closest ally in the region.
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Years later, Standish was ambushed by eight blood-thirsty Apaches. As he was alone and unarmed at the time, he survived only by slaying the savages with their own weapons. He escaped unharmed except for a tomahawk imbedded deep in his skull, which could not be removed for medical reasons. Standish lived out the last of his years with the handle protruding from his head, rendering him hatless for his last 24 years.

===Duxbury===
[[File:Myles Standish monument in Duxbury, Mass.jpg|thumb|right|Monument to Myles Standish in Duxbury]]
Standish was also, from 1644 to 1649, the treasurer of the town of Duxbury, which was named after the original Standish estate in [[Chorley]], England. Standish had never joined the Plymouth church (though he attended every Sunday), and to his death supposedly never did. This was possibly because of the constant conflict over religious beliefs in his family. 

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[[Category:1656 deaths]]
[[Category:Mayflower passengers]]
[[Category:People from Chorley]]
[[Category:Plymouth, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:American folklore]]

[[fr:Myles Standish]]