King Philip's War
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It had been forty years since the last major warfare between the Puritans and Native Americans. However, great tension still existed. The natives were forced to live under Puritan rule because of the ever-growing population in the colonies. Metacom (known as King Philip to the settlers), chief of t ....
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.... went home.
Although the English won, they also lost. Sixteen villages were destroyed and one-tenth of the military men were killed. So many men were lost that the casualties were higher in King Philip’s War than in either the American Revolution or Civil War.
The Wampanoag did not get off so very easy either. An English ally killed Metacom and his head was exhibited at Plymouth for twenty years.
As a result of this war, Native Americans never regained power of southeastern New England agai ....
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