King William's War

France and England were involved in the Nine Years' War (1688 - 1697); when that conflict broke out in the Americas it was known as King William's War (1689 - 1697). It was the first of several French and Indian Wars, as the French often worked with Indians allies to attack the English colonists. A tribe of Native Americans (First Nations people) in what is now New England and Quebec, the Abenaki, were allies of the French. Because there had been a previous conflict in 1675 and 1676 between Native Americans and the English settlers, often called King Phillips' War or Metacom's Rebellion or the First Indian War, the series of conflicts in 1688 through 1697 are also sometimes called the Second Indian War.