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Manufacturer: Countryman Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN: 9780881504835
ISBN: 0881504831
Label: Countryman Press
Manufacturer: Countryman Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: 2000-12
Publisher: Countryman Press
Studio: Countryman Press
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King Philip's War - one of America's first and costliest wars - began in 1675 as an Indian raid on several farms in Plymouth Colony, but quickly escalated into a full-scale war engulfing all of southern New England. This work is both a history of this pivotal war and a guide to the historical sites where the ambushes, raids and battles took place. It seeks to expand the reader's understanding of American history and provide an insight into the nature of colonial and ethnic wars in general. The book includes reconstruction of events, first-person accounts, period illustrations, maps, and information on the location of more than 50 battles.
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Summary: Powerful Inspiration!!
Comment: I purchased this title along with "After King Phillip's War", By Colin G Calloway. The two together inspired an overwhelming wealth of questions, and venues to consider during future exploration.
"King Phillip's War", like anything worth reading, knowing, studying, leaves the reader with more questions and thoughts than you arrived with, is a truly wondrous piece of literature.
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Summary: King Philip's War
Comment: I have been interested in this war for a long while. This book is detailed and needs time to absorbe. The area encompassed is much larger than I had ever imagined and the number of tribes many more than I knew. It is quiite interesting.
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Summary: The first English war with the Indians
Comment: Indians have been gone from Masachusetts for so long now that their mere presence has fallen out of the public imagination (everywhere except in Massachusetts I suppose). This book brings you back to a time long before the "cowboys and Indians" era when the American West was won. A time when there were still very few English settlers in America, and Indians lived all the way to the East Coast beaches.
King Philip's war was the first major conflict between English settlers in America and the native Indians -- just one generation after the Pilgrim's landed at Plymouth. This book claims the war set the tone for all future conflicts with the Indians, right through the settling of the West.
The book is organized into three sections: a general summary of the war, a long (and tedious) retelling of the war over and over and over again as regional conflicts, and excerpts from three eye-witness diaries.
If you live in the Northeast or are an avid history buff looking for every minor detail of the conflict, the middle of the book will fascinate you. But if you don't live there, the second section becomes very tedious. The authors are trying to give history buffs locations of every battle and skirmish. But unless you care to follow the Mapquest-like directions, the retellings are pointless. Here's a sample, "However, once away from the canal, Robbins picked up the chase along Bournedale Road to Head of Bay Road, into Wareham on Red Brook Road, passing along Route 6 to Elm Street." There are paragraphs full of that stuff!
If this book contained just the first and last secton, I would have given it 5 stars. Part I is a 71 page summary of the entire war. Part III contains short, heavily redacted excerpts from three eye-witness accounts of the war. I would have liked to see more of this.
The book does go a little overboard trying not to be too harsh on the Indians, and pointing out the insensitivities of the English. Only in the diaries do you get a feel for just how savage the Indians could be. The rest of the book certainly points out how treacherous the English were.
All in all the book really is worth it if you're at all interested in King Philip's War.
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Summary: BLOODSHED AND BARBARISM IN THE NEW WORLD
Comment: For two years--1675 to 1676--Native Americans waged war against Colonial Americans, a ghastly, bloody conflict punctured with atrocities on both sides. Many Indian nations participated, but they were lead by a Wampanoag chief (or sachem) whose Christian name was Philip, and who was generally referred to (perhaps sarcastically) as King Philip.
In the war's first year, the Indians stormed with impunity throughout New England, slashing Colonial militias (one battle resulted in Muddy Brook, Massachusetts being renamed Bloody Brook), decimating villages and often reducing entire settlements to ashes, as well as taking scores of Colonists hostage, either to be tortured and killed or sold as slaves to other tribes. Colonists abandoned their farms and streamed to Plymouth and Boston for protection.
In the war's second year, the now-seasoned Colonial militias ruthlessly pursued the Indians through forest and swamp, often slaughtering those who had surrendered, and forcing captured Indians to help them track down their former comrades-in-arms. A formidable tactician, and with a keen eye for military prowess in his fellow Native Americans, King Philip was also a wily prey who was generally acknowledged "to never roost in the same place twice." King Philip was Colonial America's Public Enemy No. 1.
At last, King Philip was found. Promptly shot and killed, his corpse was dismembered and decapitated. His head was placed on a stake in downtown Plymouth. His captains and lieutenants were publicly executed. After suffering cumulative fatalities of 15,000, the surviving Indians were forced to relocate to set-aside tracts of real estate--the concept of Indian Reservations was thus born in America.
The Colonists themselves suffered a different retribution. For many years, England had been preoccupied with European affairs of state, but this war brought the Colonies to the top of Parliament's agenda. Investigations revealed that the Colonists violated both the letter and the spirit of several British decrees, and were behaving altogether too independently. A tight collar was thereupon fastened about New England's throat, and the eventual result was the American Revolution.
However, the most heartbreaking fact of King Philip's War is its lineage. King Philip was the second son of the Wampanoag Chief Massasoit, who shared in the first Thanksgiving feast with the Pilgrims in 1621. That wondrous day of respect and good will was erased in just one generation.
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Summary: one view of this war
Comment: Like most modern American Indian histories they blame the Europens for every bad thing that happened to the Indians.Well the Indians were not ignorant of the Europens or there ways. Squantio, and Samoset friends of Massasoit had lived with Europens. Wampangag tribe knew about the French in Canada.The Indians knew that by helping the Plymouth Colony that warfare was inevitable.
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