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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
Contributing Library: Rutgers University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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-ment bewildered, and knew not which way toturn. The English, instantly a\ailing them-selves of the panic, made another rush, and suc-ceeded in forcing an entrance. A hand to hand,fight ensued of almost unparalleled ferocity;but the English, with their long swords, heweddown the foe with immense slaughter, and soongot possession of the breastwork whicli com-manded the entrance. A passage was immedi-ately cut through the palisades, and the wholearmy poured in. The interior was a large Indian village, con-taining five hundred houses, stored with a greatabundance of corn, and crowded with womenand children. An awful scene of carnage nowensued. Thousih the savag-es fous^ht with theutmost fury, they could oppose no successfulresistance to the disciplined co\irage of the En-glish. Flying from wigwam to wigwam, men,women, and children were struck down withoutmercy. The exasperated colonists regarded thechildren but as young serpents of a venomousbrood, and they were pitilessly knocked in the
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liiiliiilllllllliiliiiilllllliiiiimiillS^ 1675.) WiXTEE Campaign. 249 Continuance of the battle. The houses fired. head. The women they shot as readily as they would the dam of the wolf or the bear. It wasa day of vengeance, and awfully did retributionfall. The shrieks of women and children blend-ed fearfully with the rattle of musketry and thecry of onset. For four hours the terrible battleraged. The snow which covered the groundwas now crimsoned with blood, and strewedwith the bodies of the slain. The battle was so fierce, and the defense sodetermined and prolonged, the Indians flyingfrom wigwam to wigwam, and taking deadlyaim at the English from innumerable places ofconcealment, that at length the assailants weredriven to the necessity of setting fire to thehouses. They resorted to this measure withgreat reluctance, since they needed the slielterof the houses after the battle for their own re-freshment in their utterly exhausted state, andsince there were large quantities of corn s

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