The Indians raided 52 towns, and 12 were burnt entirely to the ground. At the end, when Metacomet died, hundreds of settlers and Indians lay dead, and Metacomet’s severed head wake paraded on a pike to Plymouth. The war was set off by Metacomet’s old advisor, and Christian convert, John Sassamon, who told colonial authorities of Metacomet’s plan. Also, the Indians used sabotage, described by Edward Waterhouse, “sat down at breakfast with our peoples…they basely and barbarously murdered, not sparing either age or sex, man, woman, or