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Identifier: kingphilip00abbo (find matches)
Title: King Philip
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot, 1805-1877.
Subjects: Philip, Sachem of the Wampanoags, 1676 King Philip's War, 1675-1676 Indians of North America--Biography Indians of North America--Wars--1600-1750 Wampanoag Indians--New England--History New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Publisher: New York : Harper
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r fire much more fatal thanthat of their foes. Many of the savage warriorswere struck down, and they bit the dust intheir rage and dying agony, while but five orsix of the English had been slain. The wind was high, and a drought had render-ed the leaves of the forest dry as powder. Someshrewd savage thought of the fatal expedient ofsetting the forest#on fire to the windward oftheir foes. The stratagem was crowned withsignal success. A wide sheet of flame, roaring,and crackling like a furnace, and emitting bil-lows of smothering smoke, rolled toward thedoomed band. The fierceness of the flames,and the blinding, suffocating smoke, soon drovethe English in confusion from their advantage-ous position. The Indians, piercing them withbullets, rushed upon them with the tomahawk,and nearly every man in the party was slain.Some accounts say that Captain Wadswortliscompany was entirely cut off; others say thata few escaped to a mill, where they defendedthemselves until succor arrived. President
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1677.) The Indians Victorious. 317 A monument erected. • Delight iu torture. Wadsworth, of Harvard CoUege, was the sonof Captain Wadsworth. He subsequently erect-ed a modest monument over the grave of theseheroes. It is probably still standing, west ofSudbury causeway, on the old road from Bos-ton to Worcester. The inscription upon thestone is now admitted to be incorrect in manyof its particulars. It is said that one hundredand twenty Indians were slain in this conflict. These successes wonderfully elated the In-dians. They sent a defiant and derisive mes-sage to Plymouth: Have a good dinner ready for us, for weintend to dine with you on election day. In this awful warfare, every day had its storyof crime and woe. Unlike the movement ofpowerful armies among civilized nations, theIndians were wandering every where, burninghouses and slaughtering families wherever anopportunity was presented. They seemed totake pleasure in wreaking their vengeance evenupon the cattle. They would cut

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  • booksubject:Philip__Sachem_of_the_Wampanoags__1676
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  • bookpublisher:New_York___Harper
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