"It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire... and horrible was the stink and scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof to God, who had wrought so wonderfully for them, thus to enclose their enemies in their hands and give them so speedy a victory over so proud and insulting an enemy." — Captain John Mason, A Brief History of the Pequot War (account of the Mystic Massacre, 1637)
The pattern of colonial-Indigenous warfare exemplified here continued in which later seventeenth-century New England conflict?
- Acheck_circle
King Philip's (Metacom's) War of 1675-1676
- B
The War of Jenkins's Ear in the 1730s
- C
Pontiac's Rebellion of 1763
- D
The Yamasee War of 1715 in South Carolina
Explanation
King Philip's War, fought a generation later between New England colonists and Wampanoag-led Algonquian forces, repeated the pattern of total-war tactics, providential rhetoric, and devastation of Indigenous communities seen in the Pequot War.