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Step-by-step explanation:
A war of words followed, with each side making its case in public proclamations and appeals to key officials in London. Encouraged by inhabitants' complaints about Bacon's heavy-handed recruitment and requisitioning of supplies for the Indian war, Berkeley again declared Bacon a rebel late in July. Upon hearing of this, Bacon marched his army to Middle Plantation (present-day Williamsburg), and Berkeley fled to the Eastern Shore. On July 30, Bacon issued the first of a number of declarations of his grievances, which he signed "Generall, by the consent of the People." And on August 3 he gathered at Middle Plantation many of the colony's leading men, securing the sworn allegiance of seventy of them. The next day, thirty of those seventy called for a new assembly under Bacon's authority. In the meantime, the rebels confiscated the property of twenty leading Berkeley loyalists, whom they identified as "traytors." The Susquehannock War had become a civil war................