Or perhaps this was simply a battle fought in a time when men were men (despite the wigs) and sought to destroy their enemies, lest they come back seeking vengeance.
Whigs weren’t popular in North America for another 3 decades.
The other side of this battle showed the Native people the necessity of banding together to resist European expansion, leading eventually to Metacomet’s War (otherwise known as King Philip’s War) in 1675 - 1676. To this date it was the bloodiest war fought on American soil since first European contact.