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Why Is King Philip's War A Necessary War
I believe that the King Philip's War (1675-1676) was not a necessary war. There were many things that went down and made this one of the bloodiest wars along side with the Civil war. The fight was between the Native Americans and the English settlers.
In pioneer New England, King Philip's War starts when a band of Wampanoag warriors strike the outskirt settlement of Swansee, Massachusetts, and slaughter the English pilgrims there. In the mid 1670s, 50 years of peace between the Plymouth province and the neighborhood Wampanoag Indians started to decay when the quickly growing settlement constrained land deals on the tribe. Responding to expanding Native American threatening vibe, the English met with King Philip, head of the Wampanoag, and requested that his strengths surrender their arms. The Wampanoag did as such, yet in 1675 a Christian Native American who had been going about as a source to the English was killed, and
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King Philip reacted by requesting the assault on Swansee on June 24, which set off a progression of Wampanoag attacks in which a few settlements were decimated and scores of pilgrims slaughtered. The pioneers struck back by decimating various Indian towns. The annihilation of a Narragansett town by the English brought the Narragansett into the contention in favor of King Philip, and inside a couple of months a few different tribes and all the New England settlements were included. In mid 1676, the Narragansett were crushed and their boss executed, while the Wampanoag and their different partners were bit by bit stifled. Lord Philip's significant other and child were caught, and on August 12, 1676, after his mystery central station in Mount Hope, Rhode Island, were found, a Native American in the administration of the English killed Philip. The English drew and quartered Philip's body and freely showed his head on a stake in Plymouth. King Philip's War, which was to a

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