King Philip’s War war has been devastating …
Years: 1678 - 1678
April
King Philip’s War war has been devastating to both the natives in southeastern New England as well as the English.
More English have died in this war proportionate to population than any other war in American history, but their hard-won victory ensures that natives will never, can never, again launch so large an attack against the English.
Sir Edmund Andros negotiates a treaty with some of the northern native bands on April 12, 1678, as he tries to establish his New York-based royal power structure in Maine's fishing industry.
Sporadic native and French raids will plague Maine, New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts for the next fifty years as France encourages and finances raids on New England settlers.
Most of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island is now nearly completely open to New England's continuing settlement, free of interference from the natives.
Frontier settlements in New England will face sporadic native raids until the French and Indian War finally drives the French authorities out of North America in 1763.
King Philip's War, for a time, had seriously damaged the recently arrived English colonists' prospects in New England.
For the English, their society had been badly destroyed and their confidence diminished from the war, but with their extraordinary population growth rate of about three percent a year (doubling every twenty-five years), they will repair all the damage, replace their losses, rebuild the destroyed towns, and continue on with establishing new towns within a few years.
Locations
People
Groups
- Massachusett people (Amerind tribe)
- Nashaway, Nashua or Weshacum people (Amerind tribe)
- Pennacook, Pawtucket, or Merrimack (Amerind tribe)
- Narragansett people (Amerind tribe)
- Pequots (Amerind tribe)
- Wampanoag (Amerind tribe)
- Mohegan people (Amerind tribe)
- Nipmuc (Amerind tribe)
- Podunk (Amerind tribe)
- New England Confederation (United Colonies of New England)
- England, (Stewart, Restored) Kingdom of
