Metacom’s War [King Philip's War]
After decades of English expansion into Native homelands in present day southern New England, a coalition of Native groups including Wampanoag, Narragansett, Nipmuc, Massachusett, Pocumtuck, Nonotuck, and Sokoki banded together in an effort to drive the English out of the northeast and back to England. An estimated 5,000 Native people and 2,500 English lost their lives during Metacom’s War, also known as King Philip’s War (June 1675 - August 1676).