" (Pike, 1) This would help the Europeans to turn the tide against the natives, ultimately chasing them into a massive swamp fort where one of the most
notorious and bloody battles of the war would be fought. This decisive
battle would ultimately deprive the allied tribes of too many numbers to
continue their campaign. When Metacom was captured and beheaded by a rival
tribe thereafter, the future of both parties was all but assured.
As in instances through the continent, colonists were beginning to set
the pattern reflective of 'manifest destiny'. The ethnocentric correlation
between European racial superiority, colonial perceptions on property
ownership and the interest in spreading Christian values in perpetuity
throughout the continent would help to instigate both the

In the ashes of the shattered native American tribes, most of them lost to history by way of this war, would be the birth of New England.

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