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Holy War

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In proportion to population, King Philips War was one of the deadliest wars in American history. More than half of all English settlements in New England were either destroyed or abandoned. Hundreds of colonists were killed. Thousands of Indians died; those who survived, including Philips nine-year-old son, Massasoits grandson, were loaded on ships and sold into slavery. Because the conflict was, for both sides, a holy war, it was waged with staggering brutality. New Englands Indians fought to take their land back from the Christians, mocking their praying victims: Where is Your O God? One, having killed a colonist, stuffed a Bible into his victims gutted belly.

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