King Philip's War by Schultz, Eric B. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Preface Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction Part I · A Brief History of King Philip’s War

Chapter 1: New England before the War

Map of Major Tribes of New England at the Time of King Philip’s War The Quest for Land Events Leading to King Philip’s War Who Was King Philip?

Chapter 2: The Outbreak of War in Southeastern New England

Map of Outbreak of War and Metacom’s Escape from Mount Hope The War Spreads to the Connecticut River Valley and Maine War with the Narrangansett Winter 1676: The Algonquian Victories

Chapter 3: Spring 1676: The Tide Turns

The Closing Campaign in Southeastern Massachusetts Close of the Eastern War Some Notes on the War’s Aftermath Map of Major Battles of King Philip’s War

Part II · The Sites

Chapter 4: King Philip’s War in Southeastern Massachusetts

Alexander’s Capture, Halifax, Massachusetts The Winslow Home, Marshfield, Massachusetts Treaty at Taunton, Massachusetts The Death of John Sassamon, Lakeville, Massachusetts Attack on Swansea, Massachusetts Boston, Massachusetts, During King Philip’s War Woodcock’s Garrison, North Attleboro, Massachusetts Attack on Middleboro, Massachusetts Attack on Old Dartmouth, Massachusetts The Pocasset Swamp Fight, Tiverton, Rhode Island, and Fall River, Massachusetts Raid on Clark’s Garrison, Plymouth, Massachusetts Attack on Bridgewater, Massachusetts Weetamoe’s Drowning, Swansea, Massachusetts Anawan’s Capture, Rehoboth, Massachusetts

Chapter 5: King Philip’s War in Central and Western Massachusetts

Nipmuc Camps Attack on Mendon, Massachusetts Wheeler’s Surprise, New Braintree, Massachusetts Map of Wheeler’s Surprise and the Brookfield Siege Siege of Brookfield, West Brookfield, Massachusetts Battle of South Deerfield, Whately, Massachusetts Beers’ Ambush, Northfield, Massachusetts Map of Beers’ Ambush Bloody Brook, South Deerfield, Massachusetts Map of the Battle of Bloody Brook Attack on Springfield, Massachusetts Attack on Hatfield, Massachusetts Mohawk Ambush of Philip, Schaghticoke, New York Raid on Eames Garrison, Framingham, Massachusetts Attack on Lancaster, Massachusetts Map of the Attack on Lancaster Attack on Medfield, Massachusetts Attack on Groton, Massachusetts Attack on Northampton, Massachusetts Attack on Marlboro, Massachusetts The Sudbury Fight, Sudbury, Massachusetts Map of the Sudbury Fight Battle of Turner’s Falls, Montague, Massachusetts Map of the Battle of Turner’s Falls The Attack on Hadley, Massachusetts, and the “Angel of God” The Talcott Massacre, Great Barrington, Massachusetts

Chapter 6: King Philip’s War in Rhode Island and Connecticut

Pokanoket Homeland, Warren and Bristol, Rhode Island The Battle of Almy’s Pease Field, Tiverton, Rhode Island Nipsachuck Swamp Fight, Smithfield, Rhode Island The Great Swamp Fight, South Kingstown, Rhode Island Map of the Great Swamp Fight Destruction of Simsbury, Connecticut Pierce’s Fight, Central Falls, Rhode Island Map of Pierce’s Fight Attack on Providence, Rhode Island Attack on Old Rehoboth, East Providence, Rhode Island Canonchet’s Capture, Cumberland, Rhode Island Philip’s Death, Bristol, Rhode Island Benjamin Church’s Little Compton, Rhode Island

Chapter 7: King Philip’s War in Maine and New Hampshire

Abenaki Assaults in Maine Attack on Clarke and Lake Trading Post, Arrowsic, Maine Destruction of Indian Fort, Ossipee, New Hampshire Events at Black Point, Scarborough, Maine

Part III · The Diaries and Eyewitness Accounts

Map of Mary Rowlandson’s Westward Removes

Chapter 10: Captain Thomas Wheeler’s Narrative

Notes Bibliography Index