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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Wampanoag leader who waged King Philip's War (1675–1676) with New England colonists who had encroached on Native American territory.
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But it seems more likely that he simply abandoned the name Metacom after 1660.
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It began in 1675, when American colonists set up concentration camps for Native Americans during the King Philip War King Philip was the English name for a native warrior called Metacom, where thousands of Indians died of starvation, exposure, and disease.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
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It began in 1675, when American colonists set up concentration camps for Native Americans during the King Philip War King Philip was the English name for a native warrior called Metacom, where thousands of Indians died of starvation, exposure, and disease.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
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"Metacom," returned he who has been called the Sachem of the
The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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It was still three syllables in the early nineteenth century; John Greenleaf Whittier's 1830 poem "Metacom" rhymes "Beneath the closing veil of night,/ And leafy bough and curling fog,/ ...
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King Philip aka, Metacom, grand sachem of the Wampanoag and his Wampanoag Confederacy was the most important war on this continent because the destruction wrought by the Native Americans was so intense that it provoked the colonists to require that every able-bodied male own a flintlock rifle and know how to use it.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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King Philip aka, Metacom, grand sachem of the Wampanoag and his Wampanoag Confederacy was the most important war on this continent because the destruction wrought by the Native Americans was so intense that it provoked the colonists to require that every able-bodied male own a flintlock rifle and know how to use it.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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About 50 years after Massasoit and his fellow Wampanoags enjoyed their harvest meal at Plymouth, the Colonists' seizures of Wampanoag land would precipitate a vicious war between Plymouth Colony and the Wampanoags, now led by Massasoit's son, Metacom.
The Thanksgiving tradition reveals more about what we have forgotten about the past than what we remember Stephen Retherford 2008
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Metacom met his end at the hands of a Colonial scouting party in August of 1676.
The Thanksgiving tradition reveals more about what we have forgotten about the past than what we remember Stephen Retherford 2008
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About 50 years after Massasoit and his fellow Wampanoags enjoyed their harvest meal at Plymouth, the Colonists' seizures of Wampanoag land would precipitate a vicious war between Plymouth Colony and the Wampanoags, now led by Massasoit's son, Metacom.
Archive 2008-11-01 Stephen Retherford 2008
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