June 24, 2025 marks the 350th anniversary of the outbreak of King Philip’s War. This website is provided to capture existing resources about that event and to promote new resources as they become available over the next three years. Use the menu above to learn more!

June 20, 2024 marks the 350th anniversary of the conflict known most commonly as King Philip’s War—but also known as the First Indian War, the Great Narragansett War or Metacom’s Rebellion—began in today’s Warren, RI, and lasted for 14 months in southern New England from 1675 to 1676. It was the Indigenous people’s last-ditch effort to avoid recognizing English authority and to stop English settlement on their native lands. The war is named after the Pokanoket chief Metacom, later known as Philip or King Philip, who led the fourteen-month bloody rebellion. King Philip’s death on August 12, 1676 in today’s Bristol, RI, effectively ended the war, although clashes continued throughout New England until the Treaty of Casco was signed in 1678.

Click here for a link to “After the Mayflower”, a 76-minute film telling the story of the Massasoit and Metacom leading up to King Philip’s War.

Click here to learn about the murder of John Sassamon that triggered the War.

Click here for a description of the outbreak of the War in today’s Warren, RI

Click here for a description of the Battle of Bloody Brook.

Click here for the September 1st attack that never happened

Click here for a description of the August Siege.

Click here for a description of Wheeler’s Surprise on August 2, 1675.

Click here for battles from Beer’s Ambush through Bloody Brook

Click here for an article in the August 11, 2025 Greenfield Recorder on ideas floated for adding Indigenous perspective to Great Falls Massacre monument in Gill.