:: Colonial Wars
1675 - 1676 |
|| | King Philip's War aka First Indian War, Metacom's War, Metacomet's War, or Metacom's Rebellion | || | English and Native allies vs. Natives |
King Philip's War erupts in New England between colonists and Native Americans as a result of tensions over colonist's expansionist activities. The bloody war rages up and down the Connecticut River valley in Massachusetts and in the Plymouth and Rhode Island colonies, eventually resulting in 600 English colonials being killed and 3,000 Native Americans, including women and children on both sides
| June 24, 1675 | The Wapanoag, under King Philip, attack the Rhode Island village of Swansea, initiating a series of bloody and enormously successful Native attacks on New England settlements that will continue for nearly a year. |
| Dec. 16, 1675 | In the "great Swamp Fight" 1,000 New England troops commanded by Plymouth Colony Governor Josiah Winslow rout a force of 3,000 entrenched Narragansett warriors. |
| Aug. 12, 1676 | King Philip is surrounded and killed at Mount Hope; largely ending the war in southern New England. In New Hampshire and Maine, the Saco Indians continue to raid settlements for another year and a half. |
| April 12, 1678 | Treaty Signed at Casco Bay ends the conflict. |