Loyalty, And Greed In King Philip's War

In his essay, “Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn’s Holy Experiment” Kevin Kenny argues that conflict between Europeans and Native Americans was indeed inevitable. William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, attempted a sort of “holy experiment”; a utopian land of equality and peace. Kenny argues that, despite the fact that “…Penn purchased land from Indians fairly and openly,” he did not do so for the Natives’ sakes (29). He had an agenda to sell the land to settlers and pay off prior debts. Still, Pen did want harmony and peace with the neighboring tribes and his legacy endured through hundreds of years (30). Despite William Penn’s efforts in creating a peaceful land with equality for settlers and natives alike, it all came to an end in a massive collapse eighty years later when the Paxton Boys entered the scene. The Paxton Boys were made up of a group of 50 or more “frontier militiamen” who went around to Native American villages, massacring whole tribes and then seizing and claiming the Natives’ lands for themselves (Kenny 29). Because these “Irish ruffians” or “squatters” weren’t really punished for killing entire Native American villages, other colonists started to follow suit and violent seizure of Native American lands became the norm. Kevin Kenny’s argument states that any chance of peace through William Penn’s vision was condemned by “…European colonists’

One of the bloodiest conflicts in U.S history that occurred in the 17th century was Metacom's war (also known as King Philip's War). In Proportion to the population, it is also recognized as the deadliest war in American history. By the end of the war, the English population of New England had declined by thirty percent and the Native Americans population declined more than twice the percent as the English. The dreadful war was a violent and destructive conflict, which was triggered by the devotion of maintaining cultural identity and preserving authority and power, both in religious and society capacities in which one believed to be his land. As a result, this crisis has impacted Americans and the culture of themselves for many years. This essay will analyze the history of Metacom's war chronology from June 1675-August 1676 informing the readers with knowledge about King Philip, the cause and effects of the conflict, and the impact it has made towards Americans.

Often in history, people analyze war by the victory and losses of various battles in the conflict. To understand a war and how effective it is, one will usually analyse all the battles and then discuss the military strategies that are used. The analysis of the war would be chronological, seeing how the first battle influences the next battle. In Jill Lepore’s book, The Name of War, she discusses King Philip’s War and how it relates to American history. Lepore does not discuss the war by the traditional method; instead of giving a general history of the war, she argues that the war was instrumental in forming the beginning of an American identity. In a sense, she shows the reader that the war was a vessel for both sides to maintain and promote their cultural

Philbrick describes how the Pilgrims traded with the Native Americans. The Native Americans received guns and weapons, while the Pilgrims traded for pelts and seeds. Everything seemed friendly between the local Native Americans and the Pilgrims; they even shared a Thanksgiving together, marking the end of a year in America. However, as time went on tensions between the Native Americans and the Pilgrims grew high and war became imminent. Philbrick describes how the Pilgrims tried to protect themselves; they built a wall around their civilization and prepared a militia. However, after years of tension between the two groups war broke out, since the Pilgrims had “…begun to take the Indians for granted” (Philbrick 215). Philip states how “…the English put at risk everything their mothers and fathers had striven so heroically to create” (Philbrick 215). During the war the Pilgrims began to force the once friendly tribes to turn against them, destroying the friendship they had once shared. Near the end of the war and even after the war the Pilgrims sent the Native Americans into slavery. Eventually, the number of Native Americans tribes would dwindle. One tribe, the Sakonnets went from “… an estimated four hundred in 1700 [people] to just six men and nineteen women by 1774” (Philbrick 350). Philbrick depicts the Pilgrims as courageous people who sacrificed

Often when we speak of the struggle for America we think of the Revolutionary War, or even of the Civil War. We reminisce of tales of bravado and of cunning, of George Washington and our country’s forefathers leading the revolution against the British and of pursuing the dream of a nation free from tyranny. But often the tyranny that this new nation itself took part in is largely glossed over. It is largely accepted that America unfairly pushed out the Native Americans from their homelands, but the means in which they did so was crueler than the British tyranny that we rebelled against. In Colin Calloway’s The Shawnees and the War for America, we learn of a different struggle for America, we learn of the plight of the Native Americans

"The bloodiest war in America's history took place in New England in 1675. It was King Phillip's War. One of the many ironies of this conflict is that Philip was the son of Massasoit; the same Massasoit who had helped the Plymouth Pilgrims survive their first winter in the New World. A father's kindness would became a son's curse. Philip made his way back to his tribal headquarters near Swansea at Mount Hope, where the war had started. Benjamin Church, using friendly Indians as scouts, tracked him throughout the summer while Philip made hit and run attacks on isolated farms in the region. But Church eventually caught up with him. An Indian who was guiding Church fired his musket and sent a musketball through Philip's heart. The death of Philip

There are many cases of immigration (conquest) in America, where immigrants take the land of the original Americans, but one of these cases, where a peace between two different kinds of people, can be found in old journal entries by William Bradford. In some of his journal entries, compiled and published with the title Of Plymouth Plantation, Bradford talks about his migration to Cape Cod. One can infer after reading the entries that immigration usually happened to escape religious persecution or to conquer the land. Although immigration was seen as a destructive thing, the events in the reading were mostly peaceful, with some battles. Surprisingly, a major rhetorical device used throughout the reading was an

All through American history, diverse sorts of warfare from different landmasses have settled in this country. By the seventeenth century, the measure of English pioneers had expanded hugely, while the Indian pilgrims who were Indian boss, Powhatan, had diminished from 14,000 to 600. More than 95 percent of Powhatan's pioneers was eliminated because of the diminishing in populace of the Indian pilgrims. The creator of this section clarifies how, because of the differing qualities, the measure of tribes and pioneers that got away and were annihilated was high and it had a negative effect on them.

In the eyes of the Pilgrims, the overwhelming appeal of the New World was a chance at religious freedom. Unable to find a peaceful place to worship in Europe, the Puritans made preparations to sail to the new world and build their own colony. Nathaniel Philbrick explains in his novel ‘Mayflower’ that “it was fifty-five years of struggle and compromise – a dynamic, often harrowing process of give and take” (119). In modern culture, Americans focus on Thanksgiving as a peaceful solution to all problems. The conflicts and hardships are overlooked in favor of a much more pleasant picture. The author argues that the success of the English colony was not completed with the feast that was later coined Thanksgiving. The author works to prove that the story of the Puritan and Indian communities that thrived with their alliance and the downfall of a strenuous peace is much more than the common joyous Thanksgiving myth that is well known today. In ‘Mayflower’, Philbrick explores the turbulent relationship between the

King Philip’s war lead the Puritans into a horrifying situation with the Native Americans. These Native Americans took lives of those of the Puritans by burning down houses, taking them into captivity and separating them from their own family and their own religion. Mrs. Mary Rowlandson was one of the Puritans that was taken into captivity, and drug from her own family including her three children. The Puritans have a culture unlike anyone else especially unlike the Native Americans, or the “Indians” as Rowlandson would call them. Because of the drastic differences between the Indians and the Puritans culture, it was hard for them to gain strength to stay alive after the captivity. The Narrative of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary White Rowlandson tells today's readers about the Puritans culture, including Christianity, strength, and family values.

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

The British Force, as I mentioned in the powerpoint, During this war, the British force constructed a Militia which is basically a group from the civil population to form a regular army for emergency only and military services such as riots, terrorist attacks.Leaving the many Indian tribes have no other choice but to become involved because the British force was taking over of all their land without actual war being declared. Another combatant was, of course, the french who also saw creating alliances would be an advantage, and eventually, lead to a strength between forces however it wasn't until a disagreement among the British and American prisoners they came across. As a result of their disagreement, “when Indians wanted the personal possessions

Before the war, the Pequot tribe had controlled several nearby tribes to control area’s fur and wampum trade. The Pequot used a means necessary to gain power and control. They would use anything from diplomacy to flat-out war. As McBride mentions in his article about the Pequot war, “…by 1635 the Pequot had exerted their economic, political, and military control over the whole of modern-day Connecticut and eastern Long Island…” (McBride 2016) One could almost say that the Pequot people were the modern day “business people.” They did whatever it takes to make sure they had dominance over trade. The endeavor for authority over trade and fur were the main cause for the war.

King Philip the II was an absolute monarch who centralized the government of Spain. Before the reign of Philip II, the medieval era crept through the kingdom of Spain and slowly turned the country over. The medieval era was a time where was was given away to the greedy hands of many, but only to those who desired it for a urge of evil desire. The monarchy who once was the way of the people was belittled, and almost no more. Even though they had a say for the law, they used this power for the tyrannical abuse of religious affairs, and persecuted thousands not following in the ways of christianity. The darkness that once swept across the kingdom of Spain was pushed back by a man of logistic perspective. King Philip II was a man who led his country to a golden age, furthering his people to push advancements forwards and enhance their way of living. Philip took the nobles by storm, and contained their greedy ways by showing his absolutism views of how a monarchy should rule the land. Although Philip II did so much for his country, he shallowly let his kingdom perish through hard debt and taxes as well as his inherited way of persecuting religious innocents.

Almost 400 years ago, the Pilgrims, a group of 102 religious separatists set sail from England to the largely unexplored and uncharted country across the Atlantic Ocean in hopes of founding a settlement where they could implement their own religious ideals. After years of death and struggle, the Pilgrims had established a more stable settlement with a reasonable relationship with the nearby Pokanoket tribe. However, with an increasing number of Europeans migrating to New England, the tensions between the preexisting people and the newcomers would escalate into a gruesome war. King Philip’s War was a pivotal event, yet the fact that it occurred is unbeknownst to many Americans. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War written by Nathaniel Philbrick tells the factual story of the Pilgrims and their ancestors. In the book, Philbrick proves that the well known story of the Pilgrims’ journey on the Mayflower, the native “Wampanoags,” the first Thanksgiving, and the lasting relationship between the native Indians and the English settlers contains copious misconceptions.