Significant1675
Great Swamp Fight
South Kingstown · Rhode Island
Estimated casualties
300 – 600estimated dead
Several hundred Narragansett, many non-combatants, killed when their fort was stormed and burned; colonial losses ~70 killed.
SOURCEWikipedia: Great Swamp Fight
On 19 December 1675, a colonial army of the New England Confederation attacked and burned the fortified Narragansett village in a frozen swamp in Rhode Island, killing hundreds and drawing the previously neutral Narragansett fully into King Philip's War.
Belligerents2
- New England Confederation
- Narragansett
Conflict graph
PART OFKing Philip's War
Sources
- Wikipedia: Great Swamp Fight
- Lepore, The Name of War
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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