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King Philip's War and Pontiac's War: The History and Legacy of the American Colonies' Most Famous Native American Uprisings

King Philip's War and Pontiac's War: The History and Legacy of the American Colonies' Most Famous Native American Uprisings

Paperback

Native American HistoryColonial Period (1600-1775)

ISBN10: 197983122X
ISBN13: 9781979831222
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 17 2017
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
*Includes pictures
*Includes accounts of the fighting
*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading
What was the bloodiest war in American history? Most people with at least a little knowledge of history would quickly say that it was the Civil War (1861-65), and they would certainly be correct overall. In recently-updated numbers, it is thought that over 750,000 Americans died in the Civil War from battle wounds, diseases and other causes. In a single day at the battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, almost 27,000 soldiers were killed, wounded and missing. However, when historians go farther back in time and include colonial wars and look at casualties per capita, the correct answer would be the much-lesser known conflict known as King Philip's War (1675-76). While a significant 2.5% of the U.S. population perished in the Civil War, 5% of New England's white settler population died during King Philip's War, during which 13 towns were destroyed and 600 dwellings were burned by the natives. A larger, indeterminate number of the native population also died in the war. A hundred thousand pounds, an enormous sum of money in those days, was expended by the colonies in defeating the Indians.

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