A Tale of Two Swords (Patreon)

A Tale of Two Swords

Myles Standish and Benjamin Church were both military commanders in 17th century colonial Massachusetts, and lived a generation apart. Standish came over on the Mayflower, and commanded the militia of the Plymouth Pilgrims in the 1620s; Church lived his whole life in the New World, and led the crack troops that eventually tracked down Metacomet, sachem of the Pokanoket Wampanoag, during King Philip's War in the 1670s. Standish carried an elegant German rapier, while Church used a simple naval cutlass. What changed? And what story can these two swords tell about the men who wielded them? Support Atun-Shei Films on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/atunsheifilms Leave a Tip via Paypal ► https://www.paypal.me/atunsheifilms (Between now and October, all donations made here will go toward the production of The Sudbury Devil, our historical feature film) #PlymouthPilgrims #KingPhilipsWar #AmericanHistory Watch our film ALIEN, BABY! free with Prime ► http://a.co/d/3QjqOWv Reddit ► https://www.reddit.com/r/atunsheifilms Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/atunsheifilms Twitter ► https://twitter.com/atun_shei Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/atunsheifilms Merch ► https://atun-sheifilms.bandcamp.com ~REFERENCES~ [1] Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs: “Myles Standish, Born Where? (2010).” Sail 1620 https://web.archive.org/web/20101130165320/http://sail1620.org/history/35-biographies/51-myles-standish.html [2] Nathaniel Philbrick: Mayflower (2006). Penguin Books, Page 59-60 [3] “Short Men ‘Not More Aggressive’” (2007). BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6501633.stm [4] Charles Francis Adams: The New English Canaan of Thomas Morton (1883). The Prince Society, Page 284 https://archive.org/details/newenglishcanaan00mort/page/284 [5] Philbrick, Page 164 [6] Philbrick, Page 151-152 [7] Benjamin Church: Entertaining Passages Relating to King Philip’s War, Tercentenary Edition (1975). Pequot Press, Page 67-73 [8] Church, Page 75 [9] Church, Page 105-106 [10] Church, Page 108 [11] Church, Page 140 [12] Lisa Brooks: Our Beloved Kin (2018). Yale University Press, Page 322 [13] Church, Page 142 [14] Douglas Edward Leach: Flintlock and Tomahawk (1958). Parnassus Imprints, Page 231 [15] Philbrick, Page 338 [16] Church, Page 170 [17] Leach, Page 237 [18] Brooks, Page 337