#king philips war

[peashooter85]

Indigenous Weapons and Tactics of King Philip's War

from Atun-Shei Films

[memories-of-ancients]

Indigenous Weapons and Tactics of King Philip's War

from Atun Shei Films

[illustratus]

[natequarter]

not that i'm thinking about the reformation and its impact on england and international relations but i'm very much thinking about humphrey and what it means to be english as a man whose childhood largely consisted of one family raising hell over what the english religion was and what it means for him to be an elizabethan courtier as a presumably reformist man married to a french catholic, and what all of that means to him and his identity after four centuries of distance from All That (not to mention that this religious and geopolitical division is literally what got him killed). i'm also very much thinking about mary and what it means for her to be a christian when it was precisely all the fearmongering of james i and his book on daemonologie and shakespeare's macbeth which created the environment in which she was killed, and on top of that what it means for annie to be a good puritan when the men around her used that to silence and stifle her, and how all of these different characters interact with these broader ideas of a unified church, of some ideal of christendom in the face of england's emerging colonialism revealing a world outside of europe, and splintering factions of protestantism, and the idea of a rightful monarch chosen by god when people are busy fighting over who's even right about god, and specifically the idea of a rightful english monarch, and what even is english anymore when the throne keeps switching between english and spanish and scottish and not-even-royal hands (a country divided, but what's new?), all with international relations challenged by the back-and-forth do-we-want-the-pope-or-the-king-or-hey-why-not-cromwell.

[greatwyrmgold]

A series of videos about arguably the most important war in American history, or at least the war most important to relations between Anglo-Americans and the natives.

If you don't want to watch the whole thing, I advise at least watching the first three videos. (Or the second and third; it's easy to skip the introduction, but don't skip the corrections.)

[navree]

cannot believe we’re getting shit like the barbie movie and the dark barney because hollywood has decided it’s out of ideas as if there aren’t sooooooooooooooooo many historical dramas of people and events whose stories haven’t been told

[clove-pinks]

Severely constrained in my choices for an academic project in this one class, I chose King Philip's War because really it's about time I seriously explored this thing that has been in the background of my entire life. I grew up near Metacom Ave. and the Wampanoag Trail—all of these Algonquian place-names are familiar to me; not to mention King Philip, The Great Swamp, Swansea and Rehoboth and so on. It was my own ancestors on my father's side involved in this! (A great-grandparent put together a family tree claiming descent from John Alden which is maybe a little bit apocryphal, but absolutely I had some ancestors in southern New England 350 years ago.)

So it's eerie and familiar and deeply interesting to read up on the primary sources (and Captain Marryat was indirectly quoting Increase Mather, heh.) And sometimes the names are a little too familiar. I can't read about Wachusett without thinking WACHUSETT, LIKE THE SKI AREA??

This does not convey the full force of the WAHHHH-WAH-WACHUSETT jingle playing on the radio all winter.

[bargainsleuthbooks]

Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten by Lady Pamela Hicks #RoyalFamily #BookReview

The #AudiblePlus catalog had several books on the #royalfamily included with membership, so I am making my way through them. #DaughterofEmpire #MyLifeasaMountbatten is about #PrincePhilip's cousin, #LadyPAmelaHicks #LouisMountbatten #memoir #audiobook

Few families can boast of not one but two saints among their ancestors, a great-aunt who was the last tsarina of Russia, a father who was Grace Kelly’s pinup, and a grandmother who was not only a princess but could also argue the finer points of naval law. Pamela Mountbatten entered a remarkable family when she was born at the very end of the Roaring Twenties. As the younger daughter of the…

[marryat92]

Captain Marryat on Puritan virtues and King Philip's War:

I do not know any thing that disgusts me so much as cant. Even now we continually hear, in the American public orations, about the stern virtues of the pilgrim fathers. Stern, indeed! The fact is, that these pilgrim fathers were fanatics and bigots, without charity or mercy, wanting in the very essence of Christianity. Witness their conduct to the Indians when they thirsted for their territory. After the death (murder, we may well call it) of Alexander, the brother of the celebrated Philip, the latter prepared for war. “And now,” says a reverend historian of the times, “war was begun by a fierce nation of Indians upon an honest, harmless Christian generation of English, who might very truly have said to the aggressors, as it was said of old unto the Ammonites, ‘I have not sinned against thee; but thou doest me wrong to war against me.’” Fanaticism alone—deep, incurable fanaticism—could have induced such a remark. Well may it be said, “We deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”

— Frederick Marryat, Diary in America

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1595 – Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeats the English forces of his brother-in-law, Sir Henry Bagenal, at the Battle of Clontibret, Co Monaghan; he is proclaimed a traitor at Newry in June.

#OTD in 1595 – Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeats the English forces of his brother-in-law, Sir Henry Bagenal, at the Battle of Clontibret, Co Monaghan; he is proclaimed a traitor at Newry in June.

Hugh O’Neill (Aodh Mór Ó Néill), was a Gaelic lord, Earl of Tyrone (known as the Great Earl) and was later created The Ó Néill. O’Neill’s career was played out against the background of the Tudor conquest of Ireland, and he is best known for leading the resistance during the Nine Years’ War, the strongest threat to English authority in Ireland since the revolt of Silken Thomas. In May 1595 he…

[cparti-mkiki]

these two assholes having the literal same haircut combover combo……. iconic actually

[lightdancer1]

Hannah Duston, of course, is the much harsher face of the captivity narrative:

Hannah Duston, of course, fits into a much more brutal reminder that the heart of the captivity narrative was a set of atrocities to civilians and that the selective outrage on each is one of the oldest, most ossified racial lines. Modern Abenaki blithely assume that she should have just gotten over seeing her children's brains dashed out in front of her because that was simply 'normal for the time' while seeing her cold-blooded murder of Indigenous men, women, and children in their sleep as crossing the pale.

Duston for her own part became a key part in the glorying in and of violence toward Indigenous people and in a prototype of the highly gendered aspects that would reach an apex by the late 19th Century. In the older days where Phil Sheridan's view of a good Indian was the standard she was an unambiguous hero. Nowadays she's nowhere near this.

For my own part I believe that Indigenous and European children alike being murdered is a bad thing and an inhuman thing and a sign of how monstrous the colonial wars actually were in practice and that in both cases the murders were bad. This is not, seemingly, a controversial point in a way and yet the polemics over her narrative show precisely that it is, unfortunately.

[illustratus]

Jean le Bon protégeant le Dauphin - John the Good protecting the Dauphin

by Jacques Pauthe

[sasa-chans-random-history]

January 06

[1017] Cnut the Great crowned King of England in London by Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury.

[1066] Following the death of Edward the Confessor, his brother-in-law Harold Godwineson, head of the most powerful noble family in England, is crowned King Harold II.

[1099] Henry V crowned German King.

[1205] Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.

[1322] Stephen Uros III becomes King of Serbia.

[1352] French King Jean II introduces Order of the Star.

[1355] Charles I of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy.

[1449] Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI is crowned at Mistra.

[1453] Emperor Frederik III becomes archduke of Austria.

[1540] King Henry VIII of England weds his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.

[1649] The English Rump Parliament votes to put King Charles I on trial for treason and other "high crimes".

[1690] Joseph I, later Holy Roman Emperor and son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.

[1745] Bonnie Prince Charlies' army draws to Glasgow.

[1759] US 1st President George Washington weds Martha Dandridge Custis at White House Plantation.

[1809] Napoleonic Wars: Invasion of Cayenne, by combined British, Portuguese and colonial Brazilian forces, begins.

[1838] Samuel Morse unveils the telegraph, revolutionizing communication.

[1903] Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein (23) weds Mileva Maric.

[1912] New Mexico is admitted into the United States as the 47th state.

[1929] Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia.

[1945] Future 41st President George H. W. Bush (20) weds Barbara Pierce (19) at the First Presbyterian Church in Rye, New York.

[1950] Great Britain announced its recognition of the People's Republic of China.

[1996] Snow begins falling in Washington D.C., and up the Eastern seaboard, beginning a blizzard that kills 154 people and causes over $1 billion in damages before it ends.

[2016] "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" breaks North American box office record, passing the $760.5M taken by "Avatar".

[2019] Malaysian king Sultan Muhammad V abdicates after two years of rule in historical first.

[2021] A mob of President Donald Trump supporters descend on the U.S. Capitol, attempting to interfere with the certification of electoral votes from the 2020 presidential election.