Great Swamp Fight: Difference between revisions

[[File:CaptureOfKingPhillipsFort.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Engraving depicting the colonial assault on the [[Narragansett people|Narragansetts']] fort in the Great Swamp Fight in December 1675]]

Many of the warriors and their families escaped into the frozen swamp; hundreds more died there from wounds combined with the harsh conditions. The colonists lost many of their officers in this assault, and about 70 of their men were killed and nearly 150 more wounded. The dead and wounded militiamen were evacuated to the settlements on [[Aquidneck Island]] in [[Narragansett Bay]] where they were buried or cared for by many of the [[Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations|Rhode Island]] colonists.<ref>Axelrod, p. 104</ref>

 

== Aftermath ==