King Philip's War
Metacom's New England
King Philip's War was a conflict between New England colonists and Native American tribes (1675–1678), named for the Wampanoag leader Metacom, whom the English called King Philip.
One of the bloodiest wars in American history relative to population, it devastated Native communities and ended significant Indigenous resistance in southern New England.
The name appears in historical discussions of colonial America.
- WampanoagAlgonquian-speaking northeastern tribe
- Plymouth ColonyEarly Massachusetts Pilgrim settlement
- Massachusetts Bay ColonyEarly Puritan New England settlement
- sachemIndigenous northeastern headman
- NarragansettEastern Algonquian tribe
Rhode Island · indigenous resistance · Puritans · land disputes · broken treaties · sovereignty · tribal alliances · treaty violations · Pilgrims · colonial militia · oral histories · New England · intergenerational trauma · Algonquian · scorched earth tactics · burned villages · blood and fire · colonialism
- colonial historycolonization, colonies, pilgrims, Jamestown, Plymouth
- colonial faithPilgrims, Puritans, Calvinism, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony
- Colonial WarsFrench and Indian War, Boer Wars, Boer War, Mahdist War, Scramble for Africa
- New England historyMassachusetts, Boston, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Puritans
- Indian WarsIndian Wars, frontier wars, Little Bighorn, Wounded Knee, Custer's Last Stand
- Indigenous Resistancenative resistance, indigenous uprisings, colonial resistance, American Indian Movement, AIM
King Philip's WarFrench and Indian War
1750s colonial North American conflict