USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The underlying cause of the war was the colonists unrelenting desire for more and more land, but the immediate cause for its outbreak was the trial and execution of three of Metacom’s men by the colonists.

Detailed explanation-2: -Great Swamp Fight, (19 December 1675), critical battle of King Philip’s War, in which Native Americans fought English settlers and their Indian allies in one of the bloodiest conflicts (per capita) in U.S. history.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Native Americans resented and resisted the colonists’ attempts to change them. Their refusal to conform to European culture angered the colonists and hostilities soon broke out between the two groups.

Detailed explanation-4: -In colonial New England, King Philip’s War effectively comes to an end when Philip, chief of the Wampanoag tribe, is assassinated by a Native American in the service of the English.