| Massachusetts - History - New Plymouth, 1620-1691.
Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) | King Philip's War, 1675-1676. He was Brown University’s first Intercollegiate All-American sailor in 1978, the same year he won the Sunfish North Americans in Barrington, RI. Central to the story of this decisive American battle are a host of marvellous characters, including Benjamin Church, the Plymouth-born frontiersman who used his knowledge of 'Indian ways' to help the British defeat Philip."-BOOK JACKET. Nathaniel Philbrick grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and earned a BA in English from Brown University and an MA in America Literature from Duke University, where he was a James B. This delicate and unstable relationship continued until King Philip's war, a terribly bloody conflict which decimated the English population and all but obliterated the Wampanoag. Following the Pilgrims from their perilous journey from England on a battered, leaky ship, through their first bitter North American winter to their equally bitter battle against the native Wampanoag tribe fifty years later, Nathaniel Philbrick paints a compelling picture of a grim determination to survive in an unforgiving and dangerously alien environment." "Among the litany of hardships, however, are stories of friendship and co-operation among the settlers and indigenous peoples, whose timely assistance on more than one occasion rescued the Pilgrims from otherwise certain death. "Behind the quaint and pious version of the Mayflower story usually taught in schools, lies a largely untold tale of violence, subterfuge and epic drama. Mayflower : a voyage to war / Nathaniel Philbrick Book Bib ID
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