King Philip's War 1675–76

America's Deadliest Colonial Conflict

Gabriele Esposito author Giuseppe Rava illustrator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:29th Oct '20

£16.99

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King Philip's War 1675–76 cover

A superbly illustrated study of a major conflict between the southern New England colonists and the area's indigenous Native Americans, which comprised the Native Americans’ last major effort to drive the English colonists out of New England.

King Philip's War was the result of over 50 years' tension between the native inhabitants of New England and its colonial settlers as the two parties competed for land and resources. A coalition of Native American tribes fought against a force of over 1,000 men raised by the New England Confederation of Plymouth, Connecticut, New Haven and Massachusetts Bay, alongside their Indian allies the Mohegans and Mohawks. The resultant fighting in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and later Maine and New Hampshire, resulted in the destruction of 12 towns, the death of between 600–800 colonists and 3,000 Indians, making it the deadliest war in the history of American colonization Although war resulted in victory for the colonists, the scale of death and destruction led to significant economic hardship. This new study reveals the full story of this influential conflict as it raged across New England. Packed with maps, battle scenes, and bird’s-eye-views, this is a comprehensive guide to the war which determined the future of colonial America.

ISBN: 9781472842978

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 358g

96 pages