A Rabble in ArmsWhile it lasted only sixteen months, King Philips War (1675 1676) was arguably one of the most significant of the colonial wars that wracked early America. As the first major military crisis to directly strike one of the Empires most important possessions: the Massachusetts Bay Colony, King Philips War marked the first time that Massachusetts had to mobilize mass numbers of ordinary, local men to fight. In this exhaustive social history and community