King Philip's War was the most devastating conflict between
Europeans and Native Americans in the 1600s. In this incisive
account, award-winning author Daniel R. Mandell puts the war into
its rich historical context.
The war erupted in July 1675, after years of growing tension
between Plymouth and the Wampanoag sachem Metacom, also known as
Philip. Metacom's warriors attacked nearby Swansea, and within
months the bloody conflict spread west and erupted in Maine. Native
forces ambushed militia detachments and burned towns, driving the
colonists back toward Boston. But by late spring 1676, the tide had
turned: the colonists fought more effectively and enlisted Native
allies while from the west the feared Mohawks attacked Metacom's
forces. Thousands of Natives starved, fled the region, surrendered
(often to be executed or sold into slavery), or, like Metacom, were
hunted down and killed.
Mandell explores how decades of colonial expansion and
encroachments on Indian sovereignty caused the war and how Metacom
sought to enlist the aid of other tribes against the colonists even
as Plymouth pressured the Wampanoags to join them. He narrates the
colonists' many defeats and growing desperation; the severe
shortages the Indians faced during the brutal winter; the collapse
of Native unity; and the final hunt for Metacom. In the process,
Mandell reveals the complex and shifting relationships among the
Native tribes and colonists and explains why the war effectively
ended sovereignty for Indians in New England. This fast-paced
history incorporates the most recent scholarship on the region and
features nine new maps and a bibliographic essay about Native-Anglo
relations.
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