As cold winds swept across New England, the uneasy peace between the English colonists and the region’s Native nations finally broke apart. On this day, Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow led a combined colonial militia into the field against the Narragansett, marking a critical…
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On August 12, 1676, in the swampy woodlands near Mount Hope in present-day Bristol, Rhode Island, the Wampanoag sachem Metacomet—known to the English as “King Philip”—was shot and killed by an Indigenous ally of the English named John Alderman. The single musket ball ended…
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