King Philip's War
Americannoun
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However, the feast didn’t lead to lasting peace between the two groups, and thousands were killed in King Philip’s War in 1675.
From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025
Native American raiders had burned down the house of Edmund Faulkner, Abigail's father-in-law, during King Philip's War in 1676.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2021
It has not been seen since it was taken to England in 1677 following the bloody King Philip’s War between Native Americans and colonists.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 5, 2020
Until the 1675–1676 Indian war known as King Philip’s War, the Plymouth colony quietly grew and prospered in the southeast corner of modern Massachusetts.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
But in 1676 New England, having closed the exhausting struggle with the Indians, known as King Philip's War, could regard her established settlements as secure, and go on to complete her possession of the interior.
From The Frontier in American History by Turner, Frederick Jackson
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