King Philip's War and the Thesis

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Narragansett warriors ambushed Captain Michael Pierce's column here
in one of the greatest victories for the Native Americans in the war."
(Pike, 1) The victories of the natives would also extend to the total
destruction and colonial abandonment of Providence as marauding native
alliances gathered the steam of righteous resistance against the Europeans.
Still, the Europeans were very effective at exploiting existing
tensions with historical roots between different native tribes.
Accordingly, "the Pequots remained allies of the English during King
Philip's War, as did the Mohegan and the Eastern Niantic. On December 17,
1675, the Connecticut contingent that joined Winslow to attack the
Narragansett included about 150 Mohegan and Pequot led by Oneco." (Pike, 1)
This would help the Europeans to turn the tide against the natives,
ultimately chasing them into a massive swamp fort where one of the most
notorious and bloody battles of the war would be fought.

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This decisive
battle would ultimately deprive the allied tribes of too many numbers to
continue their campaign. When Metacom was captured and beheaded by a rival
tribe thereafter, the future of both parties was all but assured.
As in instances through the continent, colonists were beginning to set
the pattern reflective of 'manifest destiny'. The ethnocentric correlation
between European racial superiority, colonial perceptions on property
ownership and the interest in spreading Christian values in perpetuity
throughout the continent would help to instigate both the conflict at its
outcome. In the ashes of the shattered native American tribes, most of
them lost to history by way of this war, would be the birth of New England.


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