"On the tenth of February 1675, came the Indians with great numbers upon Lancaster... Their first coming was about sun-rising; hearing the noise of some guns, we looked out; several houses were burning, and the smoke ascending to heaven... I had often before this said that if the Indians should come, I should choose rather to be killed by them than taken alive; but when it came to the trial, my mind changed." — Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (1682), recalling her capture during King Philip's War
The attack on Lancaster occurred during which conflict?
- A
Queen Anne's War in the Carolinas
- B
Father Rale's War on the Maine frontier
- C
Bacon's Rebellion in tidewater Virginia
- Dcheck_circle
King Philip's War, the 1675-1676 New England war led by Wampanoag sachem Metacom
Explanation
The Lancaster raid was part of King Philip's War, an Algonquian uprising under Metacom against expanding New England settlements that devastated dozens of frontier towns.