Episode 39 — King Philip’s War — Part II — First Blood

The primed musket of conflict finally goes off, with devastating impact on the Plymouth Colony community of Swansea. This episode lays out the strategic and tactical advantages and disadvantages held by the Wampanoag and Puritan settler combatants, and describes the way a conflict that might have been contained escaped that containment and became a widening and extremely destructive war across New England.

“The Red King’s Rebellion: Racial Politics in New England, 1675-1678,” by Russell Bourne

“Entertaining Passages Relating to King Philip’s War, which began in the Year 1675, With the Proceedings of Benj Church, Esq.”

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Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius

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