The WrestlingSmarks History Club

[Barry Poppins]

Holy shit.

 

[Chris]

Holy shit.

As if that war could have gotten worse

 

[Barry Poppins]

As if that war could have gotten worse

Tbh I feel like so much of the war has been completely misrepresented as being a conflict between Serbs, Bosnians, and Croats when really it was a religious conflict between Orthodox Christians and Catholic Christians on all sides.

 

[Barry Poppins]

How many of you guys have heard of King Phillip's War, the deadliest conflict per capita in American history?

 

[Chris]

I'm aware of it existing but don't know too much outside of the base things

 

[Barry Poppins]

It's actually kind of crazy how King Phillip's War is the first death knell of Puritanism in the US, because it directly led to a series of events up to and including the American Revolution.

 

[Chris]

I've come around to the revisionist history that the American revolution was very bad long term for America itself and we still have to deal with it today.

Obviously not provable, but I think logically if war was prevented, America would have went the way of, or would be one in the same as Canada. Slavery would have been abolished earlier, no War of 1812 and glorifying Andrew Jackson. A small chance natives would have been treated better as England was trying to get the colonists to stop expanding (mostly due to not wanting to help), but I think that is a very small chance

 

[Barry Poppins]

In essence tho:

King Philip's War was a conflict between the puritan colonists of Massachusetts Bay, and the Massachusett people, primarily the Wampanoag, Nipmuck Narragansett, and Wabanaki. It happened between 1675 and 1678. The reason for this war was encroaching settlement on native ancestral lands, and in retaliation for the hanging of two Wampanoag warriors convicted of murdering "praying Indian" John Sassamon, who warned the governor of Massachusetts of King Metacomet's (King Philip was his English name) plans to push back on English law.

It was an extremely devastating war that led to the colonists, who already had a mistrust of natives, to be full blown paranoid of them, which created further recriminations even after the war. As a result of the destruction, King James II took control of the colonies and created the Dominion of New England, which was short-lived. When James was overthrown in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the colonists violently rebelled and equally overthrew the Dominion's leadership.

Afterwards, the Nine Years' War between England's Alliance and France had crested a North American front where New France and New England fought each other alongside native contingents. It was just as bloody as King Philip's War.

The end of King William's War (named after William of Orange), left things in the Status Quo. However the colonists of Massachusetts Bay became so paranoid that it directly led to the Salem Witch Trials and all that followed. The trials became such a shamble that it completely killed the credibility of Puritanism. Later writers like Thomas Jefferson and especially Ben Franklin took the ideals of puritanism and distilling the egalitarian doctrines from that of the theological basis. These writings and beliefs came to form the American ideals of the Declaration of Indelencence.