In the spring and summer of 1674, some patriotic New England natives not only stand their ground, they begin to fight for it. LATER That fall, a meeting of the United COLONIES leads to a very deliberate act of war – the public execution of prominent New England natives in PlYmouth. Both alliances choose war as the means of a peaceful end. Samuel Moseley, The Colonial Army’s most ruthless “captain”, is set loose. The native alliance is being brokered by MetacomET, anglicized by the colonials as “King Philip”. MetacomET, both feared and revered, starts something he cannot finish. Unbridled racism and wanton disregard for human rights, amplified by the stripping of native land - these are the dangerously familiar motifs of “Rumors of War”.