. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. ered his warriors together and repaired to the receiving them, Canonchet openly violated his treaty with the Eng-lish, but to refuse them was contrary to the savage virtues of his share the dubious fate of Philip wras preferred to the longer con-tinuance of a hateful alliance with foreigners. The authorities of Massa-chusetts immediately declared war against the Narragansett nation, andRhode Island wras invaded by a thousand men under command of ColonelJosiah Winslow. It
. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. ered his warriors together and repaired to the receiving them, Canonchet openly violated his treaty with the Eng-lish, but to refuse them was contrary to the savage virtues of his share the dubious fate of Philip wras preferred to the longer con-tinuance of a hateful alliance with foreigners. The authorities of Massa-chusetts immediately declared war against the Narragansett nation, andRhode Island wras invaded by a thousand men under command of ColonelJosiah Winslow. It was the determination to crush the Wampanoagsand the Narragansetts at one blow; the manner of defence adopted bythe savages favored such an undertaking. In the middle of an immensecedar swamp, a short distance south-west of Kingston, in the county ofWashington, the Indians collected to the number of three this place was gathered the whole wealth of the Narragansett village of wigwams extended over several acres of land that rose out MASSACHUSETTS.—KING PHILIPS WAR. 143. of the surrounding morasses. A fort was built on the island, and fortifiedwith a palisade and a breastwork of felled timber. Here the savages be-lieved themselves secure from assault. The English regiment arrived atthe swamp at daybreak on the 19th of December, and struggling throughthe bogs, reached the fort at noonday. The attack was made imme-diately. The only entrance to the camp was by means of a fallen treethat lay from an opening in the palisade to the opposite bank of a this hazardous passage a bravefew sprang forward, but were in-stantly swept off by the fire of theIndians. Another company, madecautious by the fate of their com-rades, crept around the defences, un-til, finding a point unguarded, theycharged straight into the enclosure. The work of death and destruction now began in earnest. The wigwams THirD scene of king philips set on fire, and the kindling
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