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Article: The Legacy of King Philip's war.
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- Cobblestone
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
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In today's world, statistics play an essential part in our everyday lives. Baseball, for example, is full of statistics. Batting averages, home runs hit, games pitched -- all these and more are made up of numbers that we use as a basis of comparison. History, too, is brimming with statistics that historians often employ to make past events more meaningful.
Numbers can help us begin to understand the effects of King Philip's War. At the outbreak of hostilities in 1675, there were about 50,000 English colonists living in the towns and villages of New England. By the end of the war, an estimated 600 to 800 English had been killed. This may not seem like a large ...