Tue, Jan 08, 2019
In 1675 the Harvard educated Metacom, aka King Philip, lead the Wampanoag people in a series of raids on Massachusetts settlers that killed entire families, their live stock and crops, in response to their expansion in to Wampanoag lands, sparked by the execution of three Wampanoags for murdering a settler. In 1676 the colonists organized a militia that responded with an equally brutal massacre leading to further retaliation by the Wampanoags. So began the course of King Philip's War and Indian settler relations for decades to come.
