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The Great Swamp Fight, a pivotal battle in King Philip's War, gives the English settlers a bitterly won victory.
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Great Swamp Fight
1675 battle of King Philip's War
The Great Swamp Massacre or the Great Swamp Fight was a crucial battle fought during King Philip's War between the colonial militia of New England and the Narragansett people in December 1675. It was fought near the villages of Kingston and West Kingston in the Colony of Rhode…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
King Philip's War
1675–78 war in New England
King Philip's War was an armed conflict in 1675–1678 between a group of indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands against the English New England Colonies and their indigenous allies. The war is named for Metacom, the Pokanoket chief and sachem of the Wampanoag who had…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
December 19
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