The Great Swamp Fight: The Bloodiest Day of King Philip's War

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Joshua J. Mark
by Atun-Shei Films
published on 14 March 2021

In December 1675 CE, in the midst of King Philip's War, an army of Puritan colonists made a preemptive strike against the neutral Narragansett tribe. Their desperate battle in the snowy wilderness of Rhode Island became a touchstone in the cultural lore of Anglo New England, while the subsequent massacre would go down as the darkest, most tragic event in Narragansett history.

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