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Metacom

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Met·a·com  (mt-km) Also called Phil·ip (flp) Died 1676.
Wampanoag leader who waged King Philip's War (1675-1676) with New England colonists who had encroached on Native American territory.
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Memorial donations may be made to the Rhode Island Veterans Home, 480 Metacom Avenue, Bristol, RI 02809.
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7) Massachusetts, when choosing the motto for its corporate seal, preferred the fancier word: Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem ("By the sword it [that is, the Commonwealth] seeks peaceful rest under liberty"), a not-too-veiled allusion to the carnage of its last great armed conflict with the native Wampanoags and their allies under Massasoit's grandson Metacom in the 1670s.
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