The Wages of the Covenant - The War

American Political History · Apr 30, 2021 · 18m

King Philip's War lasted fourteen months. More than half of the ninety English towns in southern New England were attacked. Twelve were destroyed. The death rate among the English, per capita, was roughly twice that of the Civil War. The native nations — the Wampanoag Confederacy, the Narragansett, the Nipmuc — lost sixty to eighty percent of their population to combat, starvation, disease, and slavery.

This episode follows the war itself. The English discovering in the summer of 1675 that they did not know how to fight it, ambushed at Bloody Brook with their weapons on the wagons and wild…