The Pequot War and King Philip’s War

Karl Linhart of Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale, FL offers a 20-minute lecture on the Pequot War and King Philip’s War on August 27, 2013.

 

(Above) The seal of the Massachusetts Bay Colony depicting a Native man saying “Come over and help us” was English propaganda. By 1637, the Pequot Tribe breaks out with the Mystic River Massacre.

 

The English set fire to the Indian settlement with more than 500 men, women and children inside a palisade. The Native men who survived were sold into slavery.

   

The Massasoit’s son, Metacom or King Philip (pictured above) attempts to drive the English out by an uprising known as King Philip’s War.