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

  1. Wikipedia: Great Swamp Fight
  2. Lepore, The Name of War
  3. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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