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Metacomet (1638 – August 12, 1676), also known as Pometacom, [1]: 205 Metacom, and by his adopted English name King Philip, [2] was sachem (elected chief) to the Wampanoag people and the second son of the sachem Massasoit.
King Philip's War (sometimes called the First Indian War, Metacom's War, Metacomet's War, Pometacomet's Rebellion, or Metacom's Rebellion) [4] was an armed conflict in 1675–1676 between a group of indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands against the English New England Colonies and their indigenous allies.
The Lancaster Raid was the first in a series of five planned raids on English colonial towns during the winter of 1675-1676 as part of King Philip's War. Metacom , known by English colonists as King Philip, was a Wampanoag sachem who led and organized Wampanoag warriors during the war.
Amos Hoskins, an Aquinnah Wampanoag Whaling Captain. The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) are headquartered in Aquinnah, Massachusetts. Aquinnah translates as "land under the hill". [78] [79] They are the only Wampanoag tribe to have a formal land-in-trust reservation, which is located on Martha's Vineyard.
Annawan [a] (died 1676) was a military leader and advisor of the Wampanoag. As head captain under sachem Massasoit, Annawan fought wars with rival New England Indian tribes and became renowned as a warrior. Under Massasoit's son, Metacomet (King Philip), Annawan, as head chief, led the Wampanoag war effort against the Plymouth colonists.
Pierce's troops fought the Narragansett warriors for several hours but were surrounded by the larger force. The battle was one of the biggest defeats of colonial troops during King Philip's War; nearly all of the colonial militia were killed, including Captain Pierce and their Wampanoag allies (exact numbers vary by account).
Philip. King of Mount Hope, caricature by Paul Revere, illustration from the 1772 edition of Benjamin Church's The Entertaining History of King Philip's War. One colonist was accused of fighting on the Indian side of the battle. Joshua Tefft reportedly wounded Captain Nathaniel Seely of Connecticut (son of Captain Robert Seeley), who ...
The court named them Alexander and Philip. Wamsutta, the eldest, became sachem of the Pokanokets on the death of his father. [11] He died within a year, and his brother Metacom succeeded him in 1662. [12] Amie married Tispaquin and was the only one of Massasoit's five children to survive King Philip's War in 1676.