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1675 King Phillip's [sic] War:
Beginning as a series of Indian raids and colonial retaliations, King Philip's War, named for Wampanoag chief Metacomet, called "King Philip," escalated with the colonists' attack against the Narragansett tribe at the Great Swamp Fight in Rhode Island. Hundreds of Indians were killed in this battle, which nearly destroyed the Narragansett tribe. Fighting continued throughout Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut. In 1676, a group of citizen-soldiers led by Benjamin Church killed King Philip, ending the War and establishing dominance of white settlers in the region. The cost of the colonists' victory was high; several towns were destroyed, many people starved, and one thousand English settlers were killed in addition to hundreds of Indians killed in the War. |