On November 2, 1675, the governor of the Plymouth Colony Josiah Winslow led a combined force of over 1,000 colonial militia, including about 150 Pequot and Mohegan Indians, against the Narragansetts living around Narragansett Bay, leading to a massacre known as the Great Swamp Fight on December 19. The Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower and founded Plymouth Plantation in 1620 had expended great effort … Continue reading King Philip’s War & the Great Swamp Fight