The Pros And Cons Of King Philips War

In my opinion, this depiction is inaccurate. King Philip's War is a seemingly unbiased view of the events occurring in that time period. Mandell’s book indicates that the English are the ones that took over, thus it is a fight against the Indians. The English came to seek land, and that is what they obtained, but the results were devastating, especially for the Native Americans. Obviously, the Native Americans lived in North America long before the English(or any other country) arrived. In conclusion, the textbook states facts, but it seems to hold some biases for the English colonists.

In exchange, the encomendero could force the Native Americans to pay tribute in forms of bullion and labor. Eventually, the native people began to die off from the harsh labor and foreign diseases that the Spanish brought from Spain. The Native Americans rejected Spanish control and returned to their customs. Angered by this, the Spanish captured 46 Pueblo leaders, which started the Pueblo Revolt. After years of fighting, the Spanish regained control. In New England, relationships with local Native Americans started out peaceful. The Native Americans and settlers of New England began to trade with each other. Native Americans, who were used to their elementary weapons, acquired better weapons from the Europeans. This once beneficiary exchange between the two cultures eventually grew tense. As years went on and more settlers came to America, conflicts arose. An agreement formed between Dutch settlers of New York and the English settlers of New England about the division of the Pequot lands. When no immediate decisions were reached of who would gain the land, New Englanders started to settle in the area without notice. The Pequot took this unplanned invasion as a form of attack, and fought back. After a series of attacks, New England called for reinforcements from allies. By joining forces with Plymouth and the Narragansett people, the English gained control

The consequences of this war were considerable. By the time that King Philip was shot, the allied Indian nations had destroyed more than half the English settlements in New England. General devastation was so widespread, the other losses practically forced the colonists to leave New England wholesale. Yet the Indian losses were even greater than those of the English. Three thousand Narragansett and one thousand Algonquin Indians were killed through fighting, starvation, and disease.

The Pequot War was the first brutal war on the North American continent, and the first war fought between the Native Americans and the English settlers. The whole war began, because the Englishmen, like always, became greedy and wanted more land and more profitable trade. The homeland of the Pequot tribe, was modern day Connecticut. The tribe had an estimated population of 2,200 members, and they based their everyday lives off of maize, hunting, and even fishing (Pequot, 2012). For a period of time, the English settlers and the Native American tribe lived peacefully with a fair-trading system and they helped each other, but that did not last long. One reason for the Englishmen coming to the North American continent, was to spread the faith of Christianity. Believing that God had given the English settlers the right to settle in the new-found land, they saw great opportunities to convert the “savages” to their Christian ways (Pequot, 2012). The English settlers began invading the Pequot’s territory, and almost completely pushed them off of their land. “There were disputes over property, livestock damaging Indian crops, hunting, the selling of alcohol to Indians, and dishonest traders” (1636- The Pequot War, n.d.). Not only did the Pequot’s have issues with the English settlers, they were always on bad terms with the Narragansett tribe as well. The tribe separated into two parts, the “pro-English and pro-Dutch” (Colonialwarsct.org). This event made the Indians very weak,

While they had no official ally, they accepted bribes from both sides and profited. Additionally, in this first section of the chapter, the author informs the reader that Patriots took utilized Indian raids as propaganda opportunities to urge colonial unity. Even if the raids were carried out without British assistance, clever authors spun the stories to blame the mother country for the deaths of innocent Americans. By 1777, the British recognized that allying with the Natives was in their best interests and encouraged all tribes to raid Patriot settlements. The southern Indian nations hesitated, due to the recent defeat of the Cherokee in Georgia, but most of the northern nations agreed. Most Native American leaders thought the British would win the war and maintain trade relations with them. Additionally, the Indians wanted to regain the land they had lost to the colonists. Other Indians, however, saw the British as “the lesser of two evils”. Taylor writes that some saw the manipulative tendencies of the British and the fact that their strategies endangered Natives more than their own

Was Philip II of Spain a successful absolute monarch during his rule? Many people believe he had what it took to be absolute monarch, but there were several constraints he faced as a ruler in Spain. Philip II was known for building one of the largest empires from creating effective domestic and foreign policies to gain leadership of his kingdom instead of the local authorities in charge, but he did face problems while ruling the kingdom. His addressed many of these policies, such as the policy against the Turks, but there were also many policies that were humiliating to his rule in power. Philip II faced many problems, some of them as a result of his policies and some of them were to fix his problems while in power.

The Britain militia had been continuously defeated. According to “INDIANCOUNTRYTODAY” they stated that the British were afraid of the French and their Indian allies because their attacks were brutal and they burned and destroyed settlements in their path (ICToday). The reason being because The French and Indians would use Indian-style guerrilla war tactics, and the British would use more organized war tactics such as lining up for the shots. Eventually, the French had demolished miles upon miles of settlement in Pittsburg. And at the time many people believed that the French did not care for the natives’ establishment.

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.

King Philip’s War is seen as one of the main sparks which has ignited the hysteria of puritans. This war occurred between 1675-1676 and originated from the land confliction between the Natives and Plymouth colony; after Massasoit, the chief of

King Phillip’s War-1675-1676, Last hope for the Natives was to unite and fight the white settlers. Metacom lead the attack but ended in failure. Metacom was beheaded and the natives were never a serious threat in New England ever again.

The divide and conquer strategy worked well for the New England and Southern colonies when dealing with Native American insurrections. The fiercest fighting between New England colonists and Native Americans occurred during King Philip's War. As the English presence grew, a Wampanoag chief named Metacom, dubbed King Philip by his British counterparts, decided the only way for Native Americans to survive was to destroy the British colonial presence. Metacom sought to create a Native American alliance, but British forces were able to successfully negotiate an alliance with the Pequot, Mohegan, and Mohawk tribes pitting them against Metacom's forces. By the end of the war in 1676, Metacom's forces were crushed and 25% of the Native American population in New England perished.

In 1675, the Algonquian Indians rose up in fury against the Puritan Colonists, sparking a violent conflict that engulfed all of Southern New England. From this conflict ensued the most merciless and blood stricken war in American history, tearing flesh from the Puritan doctrine, revealing deep down the bright and incisive fact that anger and violence brings man to a Godless level when faced with the threat of pain and total destruction. In the summer of 1676, as the violence dispersed and a clearing between the hatred and torment was visible, thousands were dead.(Lepore xxi) Indian and English men, women, and children, along with many of the young villages of New England were no more; casualties of a conflict that

Metacomet also known by his got English name King Philip,was a Wampanoag and the second offspring of the sachem Massasoit. King Philip used tribal associations together to encourage attempts to drive European homesteaders out of New England. Colossal quantities of the neighborhood tribes in the region

The significance of King Philips War was the last effort of the Native Americans to drive out the European settlers. This was their last chance to take back their land and the Native Americans failed. This is significant because this gave the Europeans control over all of the American land. The war destroyed twelve towns and lasted for a little over a year. The Native Americans were subject

As far as warfare was concerned, the Native Americans suffered great losses upon the first conflicts with the Europeans. Many Indians were armed with bows, arrows, and spears, and clad themselves in a type of leather armor. This proved ineffective against the heavy artillery of the Europeans who had thick metal armor along with guns that easily penetrated the Native Americans. Because of the disadvantages that the Native Americans held in warfare, they had to change the way that they had been fighting for centuries. The Native Americans adopted a new strategy for war that consisted of guerilla style attacks. This way, the element of surprise brought them on a somewhat more level playing field due to their technologically inferior weapons. However, over time the Indians began trading with the Europeans to get guns. This completely revolutionized warfare for the Native Americans. Never before had they been in possession of such powerful arms. This made the Native Americans much more lethal during warfare.