New England Puritans vs. Narragansett Natives : The Great Swamp Fight

Описание: King Philip’s War was the bloodiest conflict per capita in the history of America. Increasingly demanding treaties from Puritan Settlers frayed relations with Native Tribes, and sporadic raiding attacks on settlements throughout New England kept tensions high amongst the indigenous and Puritan populations.

Assuming power after the death of his father Miantonomoh, Metacom would form a confederation of northeast tribes to band together in revolt of the Puritan treaties which sought to disarm them. Metacom would adopt the English name Philip, but his actions and words would show a marked rejection of the European settler’s ways.

In late June 1675, a series of tribal attacks on the Puritan settlement of Swansea in the Plymouth Colony would officially begin King Philip’s War. Attacks on settlements would continue for months; including the Siege of Brookfield, the Battle of Bloody Brook, and the Attack on Springfield. In these battles, the New England Confederation soldiers would gain valuable experience, and take their approach to increasingly greater levels of violence in response to the raids.

The people of South Kingstown, Rhode Island lived precariously near a sizable population of Narragansett people. The tribe had attempted to remain neutral in the war, yet overtures from Pequot sachems endeavored to lure them into the conflict.

The Puritan’s would discover that the Narragansett had been harboring refugees of the Wampanoag, one of the primary belligerents in the conflict. When their requests, and then demands that these people be turned over to them were denied, the Narragansett became the next target of the New England Confederation.

On a snow covered swamp in eastern Rhode Island in mid-December 1675, a force of over one-thousand English settlers along with one-hundred-fifty of their native Pequot and Mohegan allies would storm the hidden fortification that housed thousands of Narragansett and Wampanoag natives, resulting in one of the deadliest massacres in American history….

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