![]() ![]() This is the story you’ve never heard before. The story of the Plymouth Colony spans almost six decades. Treachery, bribery, bungling, coverups, and constantly shifting alliances. This is a story of adventures and misadventures. But within decades, New England erupted into King Philip’s War, a savagely bloody conflict that nearly wiped-out English colonists and natives alike. In the beginning, the Wampanoag’s charismatic and calculating chief, Massasoit, and the Pilgrim’s pugnacious military officer, Miles Standish, maintained a fragile working relationship between the groups. Diseases spread by European fisherman were killing them. When the Mayflower’s religious refugees arrived in Plymouth Harbor, the Native Americans were facing their own crisis. ![]() The story of the Plymouth Colony began in peril and ended in war. A 2007 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History ![]()
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