King Philip War Research Paper

Daniel Richter was the author of Facing East from Indian Country and Jill Lepore wrote The Name of War. Lepore made some very interesting points that will be discussed that can make the Natives look like savages, but the English were not angels either. King Phillip’s War is one of the most brutal wars in America and there really was not anything good about it. Mistakes were made and history was changed. Richter took a standpoint that focused on the English pushing away the

We find many places named of their leaders, owners, or some great people who have worked for a cause etc but there is a country which is named after a king who is not even from the continent and that is Georgia which is one of the renowned state in united states of America and the king whom its named after is King George 2 of Great Britain. It is one among the seven federal states formed originally. And it has great history and importance among the 50 United States.

Due to decades of English expansion, the tensions between Native Americans and the English settlers grew hostile in the Summer of 1675. Metacom, who the English called Philip, chief of the Wampanoag, started to raid Massachusetts towns, as did other local Indian tribes initiating what became known as King Philip’s War. On February 20th, 1676, the Narragansett Indians attacked Lancaster, Mass, the town which Mary Rowlandson and her family inhabited. Women and children were taken as prisoners. Mary, unlike her children and many other inhabitants of Lancaster, was able to survive due to her prayer and usage of her housewifery and trade skills. She survived the many “removes” in the wilderness as well as Weetamoo, the Narragansett chief Quinnapin’s wife, whom Mary detested. She was finally released on a ransom, and was believed to have survived because she was a minister’s wife.

The beginning of the history in America was a time of both learning and chaos. England is beginning to colonize the eastern part of the present day United States of America. The native people in the region at this time are in the way of the colonists achieving this goal. There was constant struggle between the groups. Thus, “New England's indigenous population fell from 140,000 to 10,000, while the English population grew to 50,000.”1 What this shows is that the native people were dying and the English were invading. The English were the provokers in terms of conflict and the war. However, the war was named after a native man and this is misleading. It should have been named after the English as they were the people who played the biggest role in starting it. Overall, the act of taking land, people, and rights from each other led to a war, with an inaccurate name, known as King Philip's War.

The Hundred Year War was a war between the French and English in the 13th and 14th century. The war was a conflict over land, titles and rights between both the French and English. This involved several generations of French and English who have claimed a period of more than a hundred years(Hundred Years’ War, pars.1). This was said to last form around 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet. It was accompanied by some significant battles and people during this time period of the Hundred Year War. The origins of the Hundred Years War included Joan of Arc Liberates the Orleans, The Battle of Agincourt and Philip VI.

King Philip’s War (1675-76) is an event that has been largely ignored by the American public and popular historians. However, the almost two-year conflict between the colonists and the Native Americans in New England stands as perhaps the most devastating war in this country’s history. One in ten soldiers on both sides were wounded or killed. At its height, hostilities threatened to push the recently arrived English colonists back to the coast. And, it took years for towns and urban centers to recover from the carnage and property damage.

King Phillip’s War: Through the 1660’s and 1670’s, Metacomet (King Philip) faced numerous challenges culminating in 1671 when Plymouth leaders forced him to surrender a large stock of guns and accept subjugation to English law. Philip and his tribe organized a resistance movement and attempted a pan-Indian offensive. By March 1676, King Philip had led an attack which devastated the entire upper Connecticut River valley

Metacomet was the second son of the sachem Massasoit. He was also known by his adopted English name, King Philip. In 1662 he became chief when his brother Wamsutta died. He took the lead in trading with the colonists. Metacomet sought peaceful relations with the Puritans. He lead the war against Puritan expansion and was killed in the conflict.

During the years of 1689 to 1763, there were five colonial wars fought in North America and Europe that involved France, Britain, Spain and their respective colonial possessions. Also known as “Wars For Empire”, these conflicts were the extensions of wars that had erupted upon the European mainland over the balance of power, expansionism, mercantilism and Indian alliances. The names of these were varied between where you were, whether in Europe or North America. The end of the wars occurred with the Peace of Paris in 1763. The first war was the King William’s War (1689-1697) or also known as the War of the league of Augsburg in Europe. Due to such want to stop the expansion of France, King William of Orange, “King of both England and Holland”, had already fought to hold the French King Louis XIV. He did not cared much about the colonies,

“God, who has given me so many Kingdoms to govern, has not given me a son fit to govern them.” This is a quote from Philip II saying he had many lands that he ruled during his life and how he had a son and his son became Philip III of spain.

After about 30 years of peace, war broke out again. King George's War, the third of the four wars which occurred between 1744 and 1748, was the name given to the war in North America that was part of the War of the Austrian Succession. It started with the unsuccessful attempt to recapture Port Royal by the French. The main event of King George¡¯s War, however, was marked by the capture of

William the Conqueror also known as William I was born in 1027 in Normandy, France and was the first Norman to become the King of England reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087. William was the son of Robert I, Duke of Normandy and Herleva. He was born into a powerful and wealthy family and the fact that William was an illegitimate son (his parents weren’t married) created a problem regarding the rules of the anarchy of him to follow up his father at his death. He was born into some sort of power, that being his father being the Duke of Normandy, which is similar to a mayor. However, his mother had no royalty at all and her father was a peasant. In 1035 Robert I died causing William the Conqueror to inherit his title, William was only 8

Lepore’s chief criticism of the story was that Philbrick based his account of King Philip’s War solely on Benjamin Church’s unreliable narrative. She called his narrative unreliable because Church’s son wrote it well after the war. However, I believe that although Philbrick used Church as a major source, there were several other sources he used to gather information.

In the retrospective perspective this was unnecessary war because it was avoidable. Henry V was able defuse this war by not declaring war with the France. If I were in Henry V position I would try to negotiate a peace settlement with the France to reduce the chance that the two nations would go to war. The most important was not take make the people suffer from the damage of war. Henry V was seen as a war criminal because his act of war and because of his purpose of going to war. Though, I think when two nation are at war the leader has to show that he care about his people and put his people protection as the top priority. In the Agincourt battle both side failed to negotiate for a peace settlement, therefore; the war was almost unavoidable

1. General: During the early European renaissance, military and political influencer Niccolo Machiavelli published several influential works, including The Prince and The Art of War. His work 's greatest impacts were expanding on the brutal nature of realpolitik and realism to maintain peace within a highly competitive system and promoting the war manpower shift from mercenaries to citizen militias with buy-in. Many nation-states use his political and military ideals as a basis for their own statecraft and military organizations.