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King Philip's War

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noun

  1. the war (1675–76) between New England colonists and a confederation of Indians under their leader, King Philip.


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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

“However, this is a tradition for Wampanoag families and still is for many of us. During this period, I spend time reflecting and engaging in remembrance and mourning practices, taking time to visit historical locations associated with King Philip’s War and our history.”

From Salon

Her books on subjects ranging from King Philip’s War and Jane Franklin to Wonder Woman and Joe Gould bear the fresh insight and scholarly rigor one would expect of a distinguished professor at Harvard, while her clarity and style often surpass the standard set by her other employer, the New Yorker.

From Los Angeles Times

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

A chapter about King Philip’s War, the bloody late-17th-century conflict between Indigenous tribes and New England colonists, culminates in a vision of ecological apocalypse: Zoellner stands on the shore of Cape Cod, the ancestral territory of the Wampanoag, and imagines the rising seas spilling over the earth.

From New York Times