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REMINISCED Sing Philip and the Written for Tho Anderson It ?Fo-day I walked over tho spot where in 1675 occurred the Great Swamp Fight in whioh the power of the Narragansett Indians was forever broke.! in New England. In order to bolieve that hi ?tory is literally true one should visit the Bwau^t in the winter. At this season it is entirely covered with water which together with the briers and underbrush make? a passage way into it almost impossi ble. It is then that ono gets an idea of the strength of the position the Indians had seleoted as a strong hold. The Great Swamp is about eight miles in extent, stretching along the Usquepaugh Ei vor through the town ship of South Kingstown, Rhoda Is land, It was once a shallow lako, formed by the glaoiers whioh poshed aoross this section of the country from the North East. The quaint little village of Kingston is on the neighbor ing hill, while Narragansett Pier and Newport aro only about twelve miles away. ..- , - . - j It will bc remembered that upon the outbreak of King. Philip's War, the Narragansetts were suspected of se cretly aiding and abetting the Wam ponosxs ia their attaoks upon the white settlements. With the horrors of Indian massacres full upon them the colonies of Plymouth and Wcssa ohuoets had little time to assume the offensive and it was not'uaiU late in the fall of 1675 af tee the warriors of Philip had been driven back from the frontier settlements, that preparations were made for an invasion of the hos tilo country. ? According to historical aooounts, upon suspecting the invasion of the white men, the Narraganeetts bad quitted their hunting grounds and had erected a strong fort upon an island in the midst of this swamp. It was in deed a. typical plaoe for a strong de fensive position. Flanked on both sides and in the rear for miles by tv quagmire of mud, the only access to the island was by means of a huge troo trunk whioh had been felled aoross to the -mainland nfc a narrow, place in front. The Indians had built a palisade of tree trunks over a rod in thickness' completely around tho island with rude blook houses sta tioned at regular intervals. These blo?k houses were so arranged that a raking Sro could, be sssisiaiaed against an attacking party either on the bridge or along .the whole.-.''line of def enges. ?n audition they had eur rounded the island with a deep ditoh which waa how filled with water. Here they thought themselves quite secure and had collected together all of their women and children with previsions enough for toe winter.. \ Ii was against this fort that tho settlers decided to strike a deoisive blow. One thousand men were raised. Massachusetts sent 527, Plymouth 158 a nd Con n ec tiout 315, These troops were the flower of the Colonial, force? and had alt econ service ih former campaigns against the red men. Col,1 Winslow of Plymouth. was appointed Commander-in-chief, but the most' noteworthy character of this expedi tion was Capt. Bsa jamin Church who accompanied Col. Winslow aa an aid, . ^|g'troop'?l,:. raadeavoused !?a^tW gameon housa of Bichord Smith of Wiet?ofd :on tb? Westert shore of Narragansett Bay and remained there until December 18th. Having been joined by some friendly Indiana .'.abd by some volunteers ftomRhode Is?au ? the^f^'en.':; set. but upon coheir m^jjff Their intention was to inarch dowu the western shore of tb? bsy fco the rrieon houee of Jireh Bul?, on Tower Hill: uear the Pottaquaiasoutfc River, here they expected to find provision s nd shelter for the ufibi/ but ?*?: " etfijj^tj^ quamaoutfe they found that I the ?n ians had fcttackfid th', plaoo the sight stehered the fert&? garrison. ?-;T?M?x^ ouse, w^b?eb wis; tho erat bowe CES OF 1675 Great Swamp Fight. itelligencer by J> F. Breazoale. filled with flying ?no??. Os account of the darkness and storm they could not oross the river, but were* compell ed to bivouac on the bleak plain on the east side through this terrible December night without either food or shelter. Many had their hands and itot so badly frozen that they could not continue thi march. Three feet of Bnow fell dubing the night and when morning dawned tho storm earned to increase in fury. Early on the morning of tho 19th, unrefreshed by either supper or breakfast, the army crossed the river on the ice and set on a ton mile maroh toward the Great Swamp. Passing over,the hill, the present site of the village of Kingston, they halted for a short rest, thus giving the village its old name "Little Rest." Arriving at tho border of the morass about one o'clock they were guided by a friendly Indian to a narrow foot path which led up to the island. The Indians were lying in ambush and opened fire upon thom cs they entered the a vamp, but the English returned the fire with GU oh vip^v that they forced the In* diana bc * until they came to the fort. . This indeed presented a formidable appearance. Inside an ar?a of ?boat three sores 3,000 Narragansett!} were strongly intrenched. They had erect' ed about five hundred houses, made of material which was bullet-proof and "further strengthened by tubs of corn and other provisions set around the walls." The Indians were fully as well armed as the whites, so upon the arrival of the Massachusetts troops who were in the vas, a frown? lng lice of muskets greeted them from the port holes in the block houses and from along the line of passades. The only ?ntranos to the fort was by means of the tree trunk before mentioned; this made it neces sary for the English to pass in Bingle file no ros s thia bridge exposed to the Indian muekets. Without waiting for reinforcements the Massachusetts troops make a rush to oros8 the bridge. They were im mediately swept off by the fusilado from the block houses. Again and again they repeated the assault in the faae of certain death until th? dead and dying lay in heaps in the dit oh and the entrance of the fort was choked wita dead bodies. Ii then be came evident that no amount of hero ism could enable them to gain an en* trance at thia.. point; so in dismay they retreated from the bridge, back into .the swamp and rallied on .the Plymouth and o Con neo tic ut troops who had nov? reaohed theosoene of action. 'With these ro-i nf or cement a they re newed the assault and for about three hours the . battle raged..- Eren the bravest were about to deBpai?; when the cry "The run, they run" rang out through the swamp. It was in deed true. A rear guard of the Con necticut troops ?had walked across the ditch at an exposed point ott the left, had hewn down the palisade, and with great shouting had attacked the de* feeders of tho fort in the rear.; The Indians who had ell collected at the .first point of attack wore surprised and bewildered by this unexpected., movement end for ft aement broke in to confusion. Taking advantage of thiB tho English by another desperate oharge .'.broke : over ;. the palisades in front and engaged the Indiens io av hand to hand struggle. The fl words together with' the superior discipline of the English gave them the advan tage sod now '. the awful work of de struction and buccasry cozam?hced. Th? inforiated English had becomo so savage as their Indian enemies; n si th er tho aged, the women or children were spared ia this awful carnage. Rallying into their wigwams th?)f|!' di?os fought with desperate courage $P^$i&&n^ btock h?uso? alie E ogliah Buffs red se verely from?; tnls&i&i^^ For au hoar the fight continued, when in the ermr ofter the ba*tle: wit&oat provisions aud without ?hdfcer for .toej^w*#$^ edtiee :w?s unheeded. T^w^gwams w^cre 's?? on fire and being^&ade of very tombas table material th? le!a?d wa? soon a ^Ipag" iortao^; '; !^eJ;-sVan*X;ii"?n Sd* ?fiaaM ?s KSf??? ?? iii imm?mv. infants ', and aged? aialt ea?: ^??ndfld ;t??h?dv in tltfav;;gr^ Pjile':if??o^'.?no' w?re,aMa <fc)'ew'aif^ .0^ i?^ the.swamp and ke^ftp ii deadly; ?r* ;)^6k;; the;\-Englisteiii? darkness sott?ftd down over - this BCC?S . :''9fte;#?^ Iber Stad befen HIM and more th*n 200 wounded. Of the loee of the Narra* gansetts U ie bari to form any esti mate. At least 700 were killed in the batilo and hundreds more perished in the flames and from the exposure whieh followed on that awful night. The position of the army was now perilous in the extreme. They were surrounded by their howling, desper ate foes who still outnumbered them two to one. The light of the blabing wigwams exposed them to the fire of the Indians who were hidden by tho darkness and many an Englishman fell after they had gained possession of tho fort. A oold December night was upon them md tho storm had not abated, J They wero in tho midst of an almoBt pathless swamp, encum bered with 200 wounded. No shelter or provisions cf as? kind were to bo had nearer than Wickford, fifteen ! miles away. A hasty consultation waB called and a retreat was deoided upon. Bearing in their arms the dead and wounded they oommeneed their marou. The horrors of this maroh can scarcely be equaled in any age. With the storm howling about them, they struggled through the un derbrush, waist deep in snow until two o'olouk in tho morning when they reaohed Smith's garrison at Wickford. A vessel which had been dispatohed from Boston arrived the next day with provisions fu? the army. Those of the wounded who survived the terri ble march were sent over to the is land of Aquidneok where they were nursed baok to health by the settlers. Thus ended the most desperate cam paign ever waged against the rod men on the American continent. There is some doubt as to the whereabouts of the great Weinpanoag chief, Pomtaoom or King Philip, dur ing the Swamp Fight, but it is knowe that his winter quarters were with thc yarraganootta, so it is more than like ly that he was present in the fort at the time of the assault and personall] conducted the defono?. The % destruction of the Narragan setts was a great blow to King Philip They were at that time the most pow erful tribe in New England, and witl their aid he had visions of the forma tion of a grea'j allianoe whioh wouh completely exterminate the whites Esoaping ia the swamp with a few o his followers, he was next heard o early in February in another swam in the Nipmuo country some twent; miles north of Narragansett. Her he was again attacked and routed by party under Gapt. Church. Hunted like a wild beavt from plao to place, he new saw his foiiowei (lowly dwindle away either by death < desertion, until the early summer. 1 was thon that his wife and baby bo were taken prisoners by the Englis and sold as slaves to tho Barbadoei This completely broke tho pros spirit of Kin"- Philip. He well koo the horrors cf slavery in those trop eal islands. "Now I want to die,'* 1 said, "My heart is broken." He ha already lived too long. He had liv? to Bee the broad lands whioh we: Once his pass into the hands of othe and the once powerful tribe of Mass soit, his father, completely blotti out of existence. Karly in August be returned ont more tc Mt. Hopa on Bristol neck f a last visit to tho home of his father With the few -remaining warriors 1 pitched his camp near the now eel orated Gold Spring on the west sit of. the mountain at the head Uhuron's Cove. Here on a fog] morning of August 12th, 1676, he w surrounded by Capt. Ghuroh who ht placed his men Sn ambush and at bret of day made an ?sault upon t camp. . Phillp who waa lying aale at the' time leaped up, sei red hie gt and ran down into tho "M?cry Swam* straight toward a wfc?t? man and Indian who were lying in ambus The white mau snapped his fi? against bia steel but the fog .b dampened his powder BO that bia gi missed fire; ho then ordered tho 1 dian to fire. King Philip foll at t cr*ok of tae rifle, shot through t heart; .he wi J dragged out of t ewamp, and the inhumanity of 1 foes was vented upon his dead bod His brad was out oil and sent to Ply outh and his body quartered and hu up at different places cu Mt. Ho] It ia said .that his skull remained.oi .Igr?leat Plymouth for. twenty year*. The death of the great Wampano chief tain put: au end to thai terri! Indian way in whioh 600 Eoglishm wero killed and thirteen of their % lases destroyed. * - WK?W^^^m tba Poritau* their treatment of the Indians duri this period of American history fl util be too aeverely ?riticised. Itv their inhumanly - and greed whi brough t upen themselves: tbiVa* war whioh proved so disastrous. jS?frlndiena were savages, it fa in and carried on war ia their Owe m '^Vway>. DUI* sn their treatment captives they were; far more bums ?hea* were M their Christia?;|?'fo ?While they ; ; occasionally" ; torttii jj9|em, they were in %st eases no 'and generoue td. ihei^'euemlei ?til ^'battle..' Ono cannot help but J iure tte conduct Of ?Kog Philip' Ward ?irs.'Sow?aUdion Haring h?r c: t?vit?, yat ?be Puritans tool: bia trlfe? the gentle Wootone: rusks and ber baby boy, the grandi cf tho good Massasoit vito had pro teched them when they were weak ?od hel pless, and Bold them to be driven to death under the biasing sun and the slave driver's whip. Yet Philip was the savk^el On thr summit of Mt. Hope, tho beautiful "Pokanoket" of Massasoit, is a hugo bouldor whioh marks tho royal rcsidoneo of this great sachem of the Wampanoags. According to tradition King Philip was accustomed to sit hero in state and enjoy tho scenes around him. Aa far as his eye could rcaoh his domains stretched unbroken. There was 'tho Bay with its woalth of sea food, rolling high on tho Bands rioh in tho luscious dam. There on his right were the islands of Patience and Pru dence with their forests full of deer and other game. There on bis left was Aquidncok where his corn Odds lay. There among' the rooks at tho baso of the hill ho bad played as a boy or from thence had wafted his canoe across the river to tho country of the FooasseUs to woo the fair Wootonekanut'ke. From time imme morial his anoeators had thus hold full sway. Hero many centuries be fore they had welcomed the Norsemen under Leif! and Thorium with tho same hospitality as they had shown tho early Pilgrims. This is tho moat beautiful spot in lihode Island and was well worthy of being soleotcd as a royal residence. Of the onoe powerful Narragansett tribe only one pure blood Indian re mains, but the high cheek bones and straight hair of many of tho negroes in this section of Khodo Island toll the story of their amalgamation. Of the Wampanoags so far as oan be as certained not ooo is to be found at tho present day. Thoy have all gone with the good Massasoit, tho proud Wamsutts, the gallant Philip and tho faithful Annawan to the happy hunt ing grounds. Noar tho Cold Spring on Mt. Hopo tho Rhode Island Historical Society haa ereoted a monument to mark tln> spot where King Philip foll. 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