Sudbury Fight
The Sudbury Fight (April 21, 1676) was a battle of King Philip's War, fought in what is today Sudbury and Wayland, Massachusetts, when approximately five hundred Wampanoag, Nipmuc, and Narragansett Native Americans raided the frontier settlement of Sudbury in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Disparate companies of English militiamen from nearby settlements marched to the town's defense, two of which were drawn into Native ambushes and suffered heavy losses. The battle was the last major Native American victory in King Philip's War before their final defeat in southern New England in August 1676.
| Sudbury Fight | |||||||
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| Part of King Philip's War | |||||||
An artist's rendition of the ambush of Wadsworth's men | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Massachusetts Bay |
Wampanoag Nipmuc Narragansett | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Samuel Wadsworth † Samuel Brocklebank † Hugh Mason Edward Cowell John Sharp † Solomon Phipps | Possibly Metacomet or Muttawmp (see Background) | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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120 infantry 40 cavalry 80 civilian volunteers | 500 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 74 | 120 | ||||||
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