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{{Infobox Military Person
|name= Myles Standish
|image=[[File:Myles Standish.jpg|250px|alt=Head and shoulders painting of a man in 17th century attire. He has dark hair, a dark beard and mustache.  He is wearing a large, white, ruffled collar.]]
|caption= This portrait, first published in 1885, was alleged to be a 1625 likeness of Standish, although its authenticity has never been proven.<ref>Winsor, ''History of Boston'', 65.</ref>
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(contracted; show full)ndish urged the colony's leaders to allow him to take a party ashore to find a suitable place for settlement.<ref>Philbrick, 61.</ref>  On November 15, 1620, he led 16&nbsp;men in a foot exploration of the northern portion of Cape Cod.<ref>Schmidt, 69.</ref> On December 11, a group of 18&nbsp;settlers, including Standish, made an extended exploration of the shore of Cape Cod by boat.<ref>Stratton, 75.</ref>  Spending their nights ashore surrounded by make-sh
aift barricades of tree branches, the settlers were attacked one night by a group of about 30 Native Americans. At first the Englishmen panicked but Standish calmed them, urging the settlers not to fire their [[matchlock]] muskets unnecessarily.<ref>Philbrick, 71.</ref> The incident, known as the ''First Encounter'', took place in present-day [[Eastham, Massachusetts]].

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[[Category:17th-century English people]]
[[Category:Mayflower passengers]]
[[Category:Plymouth, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:American folklore]]
[[Category:People from Duxbury, Massachusetts]]

[[fr:Myles Standish]]