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King Philip's War (sometimes called the First Indian War, Metacom's War, Metacomet's War, Pometacomet's Rebellion, or Metacom's Rebellion) [4] was an armed conflict in 1675–1676 between a group of indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands against the English New England Colonies and their indigenous allies.
Portrait of King Philip, by Paul Revere. In 1675, Springfield became one of two major settlements burned to the ground during the New World's first major Indian War, King Philip's War. (The other major settlement burned was Providence, Rhode Island). King Philip's War permanently ended the harmonious relations that had existed between the ...
The siege of Springfield was a siege of the colonial New England settlement of Springfield in 1675 by Native Americans during King Philip's War. Springfield was the second colonial settlement in New England to be burned to the ground during the war, following Providence Plantations. King Philip's War remains, per capita, the bloodiest war in ...
The Pokanoket were based at Sowams, near where Warren, Rhode Island, developed and on the peninsula where Bristol, Rhode Island, arose after King Philip's War. The Seat of Metacomet, or King Philip's seat, at Mount Hope Bay [13] in Bristol, Rhode Island became the political center from which Metacomet began King Philip's War, the first ...
Several Wampanoag men attacked and killed colonists in Swansea, Massachusetts, on June 20, 1675, and that began King Philip's War. The Indians laid siege to the town, then destroyed it five days later and killed several more people. A full eclipse of the moon occurred in the New England area on June 27, 1675 (O.S.) (July 7, 1675 N.S.;
Rehoboth was a significant site during King Philip's War. On June 30, 1675, [6] King Philip led a small force in a surprise attack against the undefended settlement, killing settlers, burning houses, and causing residents to live in constant fear of attack. [7]
By 1675 the village had grown to about 200 persons. In that year, conflict between English colonists and Indians in southern New England erupted into what is now known as "King Philip's War". [15] The war involved all of the New England colonies, and the colonists destroyed or severely decimated and pacified most of the Indian nations in the ...
The Sudbury Fight (April 21, 1676) was a battle of King Philip's War, fought in what is today Sudbury and Wayland, Massachusetts, when approximately five hundred Wampanoag, Nipmuc, and Narragansett Native Americans raided the frontier settlement of Sudbury in Massachusetts Bay Colony.