[[Dan's History Web/US 1/Topic Index/Metacomet]], known by the English as King Philip, was sachem of the [[Dan's History Web/US 1/Topic Index/Wampanoag]] people; following his father [[Dan's History Web/US 1/Topic Index/Massasoit]] and his brother [[Dan's History Web/US 1/Topic Index/Wamsutta]], who died (possibly killed by the English) in 1662. In 1671, the leaders of [[Dan's History Web/US 1/Topic Index/Plymouth]] colony began limiting ammunition to the natives and in 1675 the English hanged three Wampanoags for the murder of another Wampanoag. Metacomet went to war, recruiting his allies the [[Dan's History Web/US 1/Notes to Fill/Narragansett]], Nipmucks, Podunks, Nashaway, and Wabanakis to try to chase the English out of their lands. the Pequot and Mohegan, as well as other Indians From the "Praying Towns", fought for the English. Metacomet's forces raided farms and attacked villages throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island, reaching all the way to Deerfield, which they burned. About a thousand English were killed, but between three thousand and five thousand Native Americans. At the beginning of the war, the English population had been about 65,000 and the Indian about 10,000. By the end, the Indian population had been cut by as much as half and Metacomet was dead. This was the last really threatening Indian war in New England.