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- 1. (1675–77) the first large-scale military action in the American colonies, pitting various Indian tribes against New England colonists and their Indian allies. Marked by heavy slaughters on both sides (including killings of women and children), the war cost thousands of lives.
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- King Philip’s War—also known as the First Indian War, the Great Narragansett War or Metacom’s Rebellion—took place in southern New England from 1675 to 1676. It was the Native Americans ' last-ditch effort to avoid recognizing English authority and stop English settlement on their native lands.
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Nov 9, 2009 · King Philip’s War was a 1675-1676 conflict between the New England colonists and the Native Americans led by Metacom, also known as Philip or King Philip. The war was the last major attempt by the Indians to resist English expansion and authority on their lands.
- Missy Sullivan
May 16, 2024 · King Philip’s War, (1675–76), in British American colonial history, war that pitted Native Americans against English settlers and their Indian allies that was one of the bloodiest conflicts (per capita) in U.S. history.
- Jason W. Warren
King Philip's War (sometimes called the First Indian War, Metacom's War, Metacomet's War, Pometacomet's Rebellion, or Metacom's Rebellion) was an armed conflict in 1675–1676 between a group of indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, the English New England Colonies and their indigenous allies.
Mar 18, 2021 · King Philip’s War (also known as Metacom’s War, 1675-1678) was a conflict in New England between a coalition of Native American tribes organized under the command of Metacom (also known as King Philip, l. 1638-1676), chief of the Wampanoag Confederacy and the English immigrants who had colonized Native American lands.
- Joshua J. Mark
Sep 30, 2022 · King Philip's War was a conflict between the English colonies and Native American tribes in New England from 1675 to 1678. It was caused by land disputes, colonial oppression, and the execution of three Wampanoag men by Plymouth Colony.
- Randal Rust
Mar 23, 2021 · King Philip's War (1675-1678) was a conflict between the English colonists and the Native Americans in New England. It was triggered by the death of Wampanoag chief Wamsutta and the hanging of three Wampanoags by the colonists, and it ended with the defeat and death of Metacom, the new chief of the Wampanoag.
King Philip’s War, (1675–76)Bloodiest conflict between American colonists and Indians in 17th-century New England. By 1660 colonial settlers, no longer dependent on Indians for survival, had pushed into Indian territory in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
