King Phillip was a hero and one ofthe first leaders of residence to White encroachment in North America. The colonial war between New England Indians and the Plymouth colony that was a hundred years elder the signing of the declaration of I dependence is often a forgotten battle in American history. Authors Eric Schultz and Michael Tougias bring about this battle with an informative book with battle maps, old pictures, drawings, and diary accounts of is early struggle between Indians and Whites. They detail brutal battles and confrontations and what stands in its place today and basically do a good job bringing the actions of Metacom who was known to the English as King Phillip. He would lead a intertribal alliance in a last bit of struggle for the Wampanoag, Narragansett, and Nipmuc as they attacked scores of English towns that encroached on their hunting territories and had the Plymouth colony retreating back East. 
The war became textbook for how the English and later the Americans would handle MAmerican Indians in brutal endless warfare that drove their enemies to starve and be constantly on the run. The war erupted on June 20 1675 and soon towns such as Deerfield, Lancaster, Middleboro, and Dartmouth would be ashes as Indian tactics and brilliancy with both native and modern weapons were crushing the English. The superior numbers and adaptations of great leaders like Benjamin Church would turn the tide of the battle as fresh troops from England proved to be decisive. Many Indians were uprooted from their traditional lands and sold into slavery in the West Indies. These authors bring about an excellent book detailing the ghosts that still haunt this region with their various landmarks and detailed stories of these events that were handed down trough the generations. The treacherous preemptive strike against the neutral Narragansett is detailed as the most important battle of the uprising called the great Swamp Fight in mid December of 1675. This was the major massacre of the war as mostly women and children were slated by vengeful English troops and their Indian allies. The war would become a tit for tat battle with ambushes and victories going mostly to the Indians but it would soon be unsustainable to wage war without a way to feed the warriors aside from raiding dwindling abandoned settlements. The English made great use of traitorous Indian allies such as the Mohegan whose skill and knowledge f the thick forests of New England were valuable. A year after hostilities role out the English and their allies would be conducting mopping up exercises and king Phillip would be dead thanks to a turncoat Indian. I his dead the uprising ended and even peaceful allies of the English would face the brunt of vengeful English.
The war became textbook for how the English and later the Americans would handle MAmerican Indians in brutal endless warfare that drove their enemies to starve and be constantly on the run. The war erupted on June 20 1675 and soon towns such as Deerfield, Lancaster, Middleboro, and Dartmouth would be ashes as Indian tactics and brilliancy with both native and modern weapons were crushing the English. The superior numbers and adaptations of great leaders like Benjamin Church would turn the tide of the battle as fresh troops from England proved to be decisive. Many Indians were uprooted from their traditional lands and sold into slavery in the West Indies. These authors bring about an excellent book detailing the ghosts that still haunt this region with their various landmarks and detailed stories of these events that were handed down trough the generations. The treacherous preemptive strike against the neutral Narragansett is detailed as the most important battle of the uprising called the great Swamp Fight in mid December of 1675. This was the major massacre of the war as mostly women and children were slated by vengeful English troops and their Indian allies. The war would become a tit for tat battle with ambushes and victories going mostly to the Indians but it would soon be unsustainable to wage war without a way to feed the warriors aside from raiding dwindling abandoned settlements. The English made great use of traitorous Indian allies such as the Mohegan whose skill and knowledge f the thick forests of New England were valuable. A year after hostilities role out the English and their allies would be conducting mopping up exercises and king Phillip would be dead thanks to a turncoat Indian. I his dead the uprising ended and even peaceful allies of the English would face the brunt of vengeful English.
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