Great Swamp Fight

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Season 4, Episode 18, The Great Swamp Massacre.

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I'm your host, Dr. Sam Hume.

Indigenous anger was inflamed into an inferno.

Next time, we'll catch up with Philip as the war once again expands, and he tries to bring another native group, the Mohawk, into his anti-colonist coalition.

Meanwhile, the Narragansett will seek revenge for the Great Swamp massacre, and the United Colonies finally begin to get the upper hand.

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A murderous fire greeted the assailants, but they forced an entrance into the fort, set fire to the wigwams, and after a terrific struggle, in which they lost nearly three hundred killed and wounded, drove the Indians out and destroyed their store of winter provisions.

The Great Swamp Fight, December nineteenth, sixteen seventy-five.

Oh, rouse you, rouse you, men at arms, and hear the tale I tell.

From Peticwamsket town I come.

A murderous fire greeted the assailants, but they forced an entrance into the fort, set fire to the wigwams, and after a terrific struggle, in which they lost nearly three hundred killed and wounded, drove the Indians out and destroyed their store of winter provisions.

The Great Swamp Fight, December 19th, 1675.

O rouse you, rouse you men-at-arms, and hear the tale I tell.

From Pettaquamskett town I come, now hear what there befell.