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Excerpt from Pictorial History of King Philip's War: Comprising a Full and Minute Account of All the Massacres, Battles, Conflagrations, and Other Thrilling Incidents of That Tragic Passage in American History; With an Introduction; Containing an Account of the Indian Tribes, Their Manners and Customs The War of King Philip, so deservedly famous in the history of New England, was by far the most formidable and disastrous of all the Indian wars which have ever taken place within the territory now belonging to the United States. The New England colonies are considered to have been retarded in their advance at least half a century by the loss of lives and property inflicted on them by Philip and his warriors; while, to the Indians themselves, the war resulted in little short of entire extermination. The history of so important and influential a war as this must always possess great interest for Americans; and it has been the author' s mm to treat it in a manner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.