Translation Trivia -- King Philip's War

King Philip's War - Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, and the End of Indian Sovereignty, by Daniel R. Mandell. Johns Hopkins, 176 pp., $45.

As Mandell makes clear, however, neither side at the outset wanted a full-scale war, and there were wise heads on both sides who might have headed it off. Once the first blood was spilled, however—Native American blood—the desire for vengeance against the English galvanized the Wampanoag followers of the sachem (chief) Metacom, or King Philip, into an orgy of bloodletting rendered more frightful by the savagery of the combat.

The Weekly Standard, January 3/January 10, 2010, p. 35.