THE NATIVE LEADER WHOSE HEAD WAS DISPLAYED FOR DECADES
From the perspective of the Narragansett, it was an assault on a community that had attempted to remain outside the war.
The consequences demonstrate how quickly fear can become self-fulfilling in wartime.
The English feared an alliance.
They attacked to prevent it.
The attack helped create the alliance.
PART FIFTEEN — THE WAR WAS ALSO A WAR OF INFORMATION
Modern readers often imagine seventeenth-century warfare as soldiers meeting in open fields.
King Philip’s War rarely worked that way.
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