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8/12/2007, 07:10 AM
August 12, 1676 : King Philip's War ends
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Metacomet, a/k/a King Philip of the Wampanoags. He was the son and successor of Massasoit, the Wampanoag chieftain who had provided critical suuplies and assistance to the Puritans during their first tenuous years at Plymouth.
331 years ago today, in colonial New England, "King Philip's War" effectively comes to an end when Philip, chief of the Wampanoag Indians, is assassinated by an Indian in the service of the English.
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In the early 1670s, 50 years of peace between the Plymouth colony and the local Wampanoag Indians began to deteriorate when the rapidly expanding settlements forced land sales on the tribe. Reacting to increasing Indian hostility, the English met with King Philip, chief of the Wampanoag, and demanded that his forces surrender their arms.
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Another image of King Philip. Made by Paul Revere at least 40 years after Philip's murder.
The Wampanoag did so, but in 1675 a Christian Indian who had been acting as an informer to the English was murdered, and three Wampanoag were tried and executed for the crime.
On June 24, King Philip responded by ordering a raid on the border settlement of Swansea, Massachusetts. His forces massacred the English colonists there, and the attack set off a series of Wampanoag raids in which several settlements were destroyed and scores of colonists were killed.
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From 1986 through 2001, a group of archeologists conducted a dig of the Phips Plantation in Woolwich, Maine. The homestead was constructed between 1639 and 1646, and was abandoned and destroyed on August 14, 1676, in a Wabanaki raid during King Phillip's War. The site was the birthplace and childhood home of Sir William Phips, the first American to be knighted the the King of England, and the first royal governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
As an aside, there was little or no scalping during this period. Scalping really took off much later in the middle of the 18th century during the "French and Indian War" (known in Europe as the "Seven Years War" between France and Britain).
Opinions among historians vary, but the modern consensus on scalping is the practice began after it was encouraged by the warring European factions among their respective Indian allies as a means of presenting evidence of having killed a white for which a bounty was paid.
After the sacking of Swansea, the New England colonists retaliated by destroying a number of Indian villages all over the region. The destruction of a Narragansett village by the English brought the Narragansetts (of modern Rhode Island) into the conflict on the side of King Philip, and within a few months several other tribes and all the New England colonies were involved.
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17th century New England militia
The Indians sought to end the white presence on their historic lands. The colonists were committed to ending what had become an "Indian problem," thus inaugurating a recurring theme in American history --freeing the Indians' remaining holdings for white settlement by any means necessary.
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In the depths of the Great Swamp near Exeter, a 30 ft high shaft of unworked granite stands surrounded by four low stones with their inscriptions nearly eroded. It was here on a frigid December night in 1675 that the forces of the United Colonies and their allies attacked a fortified settlement of Narragansett and Wampanoag Indians. Fighting through the freezing night, they eventually set the huts on fire, burning women and children to death. Scores of fighters on both sides were slaughtered and even the "victorious" colonists questioned their actions.
In early 1676, the Narragansett were defeated and their chief killed, while the Wampanoag and their other allies were gradually subdued. King Philip's wife and son were captured, and his wilderness refuge in Mount Hope, RI, was discovered.
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On this day in 1676, Philip was assassinated at Mount Hope by an Indian turncoat in the employ of the colonists. The English managed to recover King Philip's remains, drew and quartered his body and publicly displayed his head on a pike in the village of Plymouth.
King Philip's War was extremely costly to the colonists of southern New England but it destroyed the ability of the Indians in New England to resist further white incursions and heralded the beginning a period of unimpeded colonial expansion which continued almost 250 years.
And to think, there are still folks in this country who would actually begrudge Indian people the ability to make a few dollars with tribal casinos.
http://aycu14.webshots.com/image/22413/2005914385879929706_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2005914385879929706)
Metacomet, a/k/a King Philip of the Wampanoags. He was the son and successor of Massasoit, the Wampanoag chieftain who had provided critical suuplies and assistance to the Puritans during their first tenuous years at Plymouth.
331 years ago today, in colonial New England, "King Philip's War" effectively comes to an end when Philip, chief of the Wampanoag Indians, is assassinated by an Indian in the service of the English.
http://aycu04.webshots.com/image/25963/2005904443150722087_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2005904443150722087)
In the early 1670s, 50 years of peace between the Plymouth colony and the local Wampanoag Indians began to deteriorate when the rapidly expanding settlements forced land sales on the tribe. Reacting to increasing Indian hostility, the English met with King Philip, chief of the Wampanoag, and demanded that his forces surrender their arms.
http://aycu36.webshots.com/image/23075/2005936433142395861_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2005936433142395861)
Another image of King Philip. Made by Paul Revere at least 40 years after Philip's murder.
The Wampanoag did so, but in 1675 a Christian Indian who had been acting as an informer to the English was murdered, and three Wampanoag were tried and executed for the crime.
On June 24, King Philip responded by ordering a raid on the border settlement of Swansea, Massachusetts. His forces massacred the English colonists there, and the attack set off a series of Wampanoag raids in which several settlements were destroyed and scores of colonists were killed.
http://aycu08.webshots.com/image/24647/2005900376383635565_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2005900376383635565)
http://aycu34.webshots.com/image/23833/2005999130317910662_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2005999130317910662)
From 1986 through 2001, a group of archeologists conducted a dig of the Phips Plantation in Woolwich, Maine. The homestead was constructed between 1639 and 1646, and was abandoned and destroyed on August 14, 1676, in a Wabanaki raid during King Phillip's War. The site was the birthplace and childhood home of Sir William Phips, the first American to be knighted the the King of England, and the first royal governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
As an aside, there was little or no scalping during this period. Scalping really took off much later in the middle of the 18th century during the "French and Indian War" (known in Europe as the "Seven Years War" between France and Britain).
Opinions among historians vary, but the modern consensus on scalping is the practice began after it was encouraged by the warring European factions among their respective Indian allies as a means of presenting evidence of having killed a white for which a bounty was paid.
After the sacking of Swansea, the New England colonists retaliated by destroying a number of Indian villages all over the region. The destruction of a Narragansett village by the English brought the Narragansetts (of modern Rhode Island) into the conflict on the side of King Philip, and within a few months several other tribes and all the New England colonies were involved.
http://aycu29.webshots.com/image/24828/2004161864962183530_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2004161864962183530)
17th century New England militia
The Indians sought to end the white presence on their historic lands. The colonists were committed to ending what had become an "Indian problem," thus inaugurating a recurring theme in American history --freeing the Indians' remaining holdings for white settlement by any means necessary.
http://aycu04.webshots.com/image/25963/2005982629742300576_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2005982629742300576)
In the depths of the Great Swamp near Exeter, a 30 ft high shaft of unworked granite stands surrounded by four low stones with their inscriptions nearly eroded. It was here on a frigid December night in 1675 that the forces of the United Colonies and their allies attacked a fortified settlement of Narragansett and Wampanoag Indians. Fighting through the freezing night, they eventually set the huts on fire, burning women and children to death. Scores of fighters on both sides were slaughtered and even the "victorious" colonists questioned their actions.
In early 1676, the Narragansett were defeated and their chief killed, while the Wampanoag and their other allies were gradually subdued. King Philip's wife and son were captured, and his wilderness refuge in Mount Hope, RI, was discovered.
http://aycu07.webshots.com/image/22726/2005928510604921605_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2005928510604921605)
On this day in 1676, Philip was assassinated at Mount Hope by an Indian turncoat in the employ of the colonists. The English managed to recover King Philip's remains, drew and quartered his body and publicly displayed his head on a pike in the village of Plymouth.
King Philip's War was extremely costly to the colonists of southern New England but it destroyed the ability of the Indians in New England to resist further white incursions and heralded the beginning a period of unimpeded colonial expansion which continued almost 250 years.
And to think, there are still folks in this country who would actually begrudge Indian people the ability to make a few dollars with tribal casinos.