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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.
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.
More than 50 years later, Wampanoag Chief Sachem Metacom and his allies waged King Philip's War (1675–1676) against the colonists. The war resulted in the death of 40 percent of the surviving Wampanoag.
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.
Simons was a descendant of Massasoit, Wampanoag chief in Massachusetts at the time of the Pilgrim's landing, and also of Massasoit's son Metacomet—better known as King Philip, Indian leader during the King Philip's War.
Metacomet (died 1676), war leader of the Wampanoag in King Philip's War; Philip I of Castile "the Handsome" (1478–1506) Philip I of France (1052–1108) Philip II of France (1165–1223) Philip III of France, "the Bold" (1245–1285) Philip IV of France (Philip I of Navarre), "the Fair" (1268–1314)
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.
During King Philip's War, Church was the principal military aide to Governor Josiah Winslow of Plymouth Colony. Commissioned by Winslow as a captain on July 24, 1675, he fought during King Philip's War (1675–1678) on the New England frontier against the Wampanoag, Nipmuck and Podunk tribes of Indians. He is best known during this time for ...