Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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traitor, and attacked it on the nine-teenth of December. After a severe fight oftwo hours they succeeded in forcing an en-trance into the fort. The wigwams werethen fired, and the whole place was soon inflames. The defeat of the savages wascomplete, but it was purchased by the lossof six captains and two hundred and fiftymen, killed and wounded, on the part of theEnglish. Fury of the Savages, \bout one thousand of the Narragans^tcswere slain, their provisions were destroyedand numbers were made prisoners. Thosewho escaped wandered through the frozenwoods without shelter, and for food werecompelled to dig for nuts and acorns underthe snow. Many died during the winter.Canonchet, the Narragansett chief, wasamong the survivors. We will fight to thelast man rather than become servants to theEnglish, said the undaunted chieftaia Hewas taken prisoner in April, 1676. nearBlackstone, and was offered his life if hewould induce the Indians to make peaceHe refused the offer with scorn, and, when
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MRS. ROWLANwaOW is^W&£ii gy XHE INDIANS. 175 i^6 SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. sentenced to death, answered proudly: Ilike it well; I shall die before I speak any-thing unworthy of myself In the spring of 1676, Philip, who had beento the west to endeavor to induce theMohawks to join the war against the Eng-lish, returned to place himself at the head ofhis countrymen in New England. The workof murdering and burning was resumed withrenewed fury. The Indians seemed to beeverywhere and innumerable, and the whitescould find safety only in their forts. Thesurviving Narragansetts scourged the RhodeIsland and Plymouth colonies with fire andaxe, and even the aged Roger Williams wasobliged to take up arms for the defence ofhis home, Lancaster, Medford, Weymouth,Groton, Springfield, Sudbury and Marl-borough, in Massachusetts, and Providenceand Warwick, in Rhode Island, were de-stroyed either wholly or in part, and numer-ous other settlements were attacked and madeto suffer more or less severely. M

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