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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.
Wampanoag history from 1621 to King Philip's War is depicted in the first part of We Shall Remain, a 2009 documentary. See also. The City of Columbus was an 1884 ...
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.
Several Wampanoag men attacked and killed colonists in Swansea, Massachusetts, on June 20, 1675, and that began King Philip's War. The Indians laid siege to the town, then destroyed it five days later and killed several more people.
A portrait of Wampanoag sachem Metacomet (King Philip). The Wampanoag sachem Metacomet (King Philip) drew on his alliances with the Nipmuc and Connecticut River valley nations, as King Philip's War raged across the Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island colonies from June 1675 onwards. [1]
In 1675, Eastern Massachusetts Wampanoag Indian sachem Metacomet (known as "King Philip" to the colonists) led the Wampanoag and allied peoples against the New England Colonies after the death of his brother Wamsutta, and the conflict rapidly spread through New England. [4]
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.