Episode 43 — King Philip’s War Part VI — Capt. Benjamin Church & The Endgame

In the summer of 1676, Metacomet fled south from central Massachusetts, back to his homeland in Rhode Island’s Mount Hope Peninsula. Captain Benjamin Church, sidelined by wounds, got back into the fight, leading a contingent of native warriors and English soldiers in a strategic manhunt that would end King Philip’s War.

Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War is highly readable and worthy, and Osprey’s King Philip’s War, 1675-76: America’s Deadliest Colonial Conflict is useful. Flintlock & Tomahawk by Douglas Leach remains a key history.

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