Metacomet, who lived from around 1638 to 12 August 1676, also known as Pometacom, Metacom and by his adopted English name King Philip, was sachem, or elected chief, of the Wampanoag people from 1662 to 1676, succeeding his father Massasoit after the brief rule of his older brother Wamsutta. He initially sought to live in peace with the English colonists of New England, serving mainly as the Wampanoag's trade representative, but after years of worsening relations he led a coalition of Algonquian peoples of the northeastern woodlands, including the Wampanoag, Pocomtuc, Nipmuc and Narragansett, against the Puritan settlers of the New England colonies and their Native allies, the Mohegan, Pequot and Christian Indians, in the conflict that became known as King Philip's War. Metacomet was killed near Mount Hope, Rhode Island on 12 August 1676, a death some scholars mark as the effective end of the war, though fighting continued in northern New England into 1678.
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