The War, spread as far as Northampton, MA (see map, above), took thousands of English and Native lives and forever changed the relationship between the two groups. Most of the defeated tribal people were either killed or forced to leave their homeland and find new places to live as far away as New York and Maine.
Click here for “The Soldier and the King” by Michael Westaway McCue in the June 2002 edition of American History.
Click on the images below for more on the course of the War:
See also:
King Philip’s War Timeline https://historyofmassachusetts.org/king-philips-war-timeline/
Weetamoe of the Pocassets sided with King Philip during the War https://sowamsheritagearea.org/wp/weetamoe-of-the-pocassets-sided-with-king-philip-during-the-war/
The Battle of Sudbury https://sowamsheritagearea.org/wp/sudbury-the-birth-of-an-american-town-episode-3/
Subscribe to our newsletter!