Event
Great Swamp Fight
Attack of December 1675 by about 1,000 English colonists on the Narragansett winter settlement in Rhode Island.
- Dates
- Dec 1675
- Also known as
- Great Swamp Massacre
Connections 2
involved
- Plymouth Colony sent men to a force of about 1,000 Primary record 1
part of
- King Philip’s War Primary record 1
Timeline 1 date
- Dec 1675 Great Swamp Fight
Proof 1 source
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King Philip's War (1675 - 1678), Roger Williams National Memorial, National Park Service.
Primary record
These men came from the United Colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Hartford.
The Great Swamp Fight, or Massacre, cost the lives of almost seven hundred Native American men, women and children.
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