The Sudbury Fight: A Decisive Native American Victory in King Philip's War
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- Опубліковано 13 січ 2019
- On April 21st 1676, a company of eighty Massachusetts militiamen fought to the death against a Native American army five hundred strong in one of the climactic battles of King Philip's War.
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CORRECTIONS: The map featured in this video prominently shows the east-west Boston Post Road, with a southerly bridge spanning the Sudbury river. This was based on information from a map in _King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict_ by Eric Schultz and Michael Tougias. However, Boston Post Road wasn't laid out until after the American Revolution, and in 1676 there was not yet a bridge over that part of the river. I was recently sent some historic maps of the area which show that the road to Marlborough curled south from Old Town Bridge (the northerly river crossing on my map) then ran between Goodman's Hill and Green Hill before meeting up with the current approximate route of Boston Post Road closer to the Marlborough town line. This is almost certainly the road Wadsworth's company traveled along during the battle.
Also, Captain Hugh Mason sent the Watertown militia to Sudbury, but did not personally command it, which makes sense as he was seventy-five years old at the time of the battle.
the correction 3 years late is truly a commendation of your untiring work
You also kept pronouncing Wampanoag as it's spelled
Do they do historical walks about king Philips wars?
We lived (our Family) at base of Green Hill from 1640 to 1988. The Indians spared our house as we traded cloth and supplies with them. The fireplace and the Great Room stands to this day. We gave the land for the Colonists to be buried at Wadsworth Cemetary. We Farmed that land for centuries and found buckets of artifacts relating to King Phillips War and some every day things as well. The stories stayed in our family and we spoke of that war continually since 1676. We even celebrated that horrific day on the Anniversary every year by bringing flowers to Wadsworth Cemetary
That is so amazing! I am a third grade teacher in Sudbury and we teach the students about the war. I'd love to talk to you about it!
I would love to meet with you sometime and if possible look at some of the artifacts that your family has collected. Thanks, Paul
@@katiehanks9156 Anytime, I'm local and love telling the History of our old farm!
@@mrdrico1313 I'm happy we got along with the Natives of this area in the 1670's. I'm sorry you feel that way!
@@mrdrico1313 Why so dark and personal?
I believe pyrrhic is pronounced “peer-ik” not “fear-ic”- but at any rate really really good video. Absolutely loved it
As a Brit we would pronounce it "Pir-ik".
@@Malky24 It's pirik.
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@@footscorn Sorry, I shouldn't have separated the syllables out. Thank God you were here to correct me.
@@Malky24 Pie-rick. But yes.
As someone that has always been fascinated by this conflict, I'm enjoying these immensely.
Manny Sereno get over yourself.
@@rolandbruno686 I agree that was ridiculous.
@@burtvhulberthyhbn7583 Thanks. Having an interest in a historical subject doesn't imply what this dolt was implying. People these days feel the need to manufacture villains and outrage. It's tedious.
@@rolandbruno686 indeed. I just finished a book on king Phillips war and this video was fascinating. A very well done production.
Roland Bruno it was biad and racist
I am directly descended from a man who was 19 years old and unmarried while serving in the Mass. Militia in this war. He was captured in combat. His life was spared and he was taken north where he lived as a captive in a Native village for 4 years. He was discovered by a party of representatives of the colonies negotiating with the Natives and was eventually ransomed by the Massachusetts colony for thirty pounds silver and released. He returned home and was married on the following Christmas day. While these details were preserved in family records and colonial documents, nothing is recorded of his life with the Natives. I'm able to relate this because he was not slaughtered but was spared by the "savages" who took him with them as they moved north. Oddly, after his return it seems there was no interest in documenting or preserving ANY stories of his life as young man living with the Wabanaki/Micmac people who took him in. From what I understand, captives taken away from the body of the church was a BIG deal to Puritans who feared more than the loss of a captive. They feared a soul would be lost for eternity in hell whilst living in deep heathen darkness. A fate far worse than one who died in combat. As for recognizing the humanity of the Natives who spared his life, they were probably unmoved, believing that only through God was he spared and recovered from eternal damnation. I sure wish I could ask him about that. Despite that misbegotten and poorly conceived war, I owe my life to the moment that Native Americans decided whether he would live or die.
Native People were not "savages".
@@envirotruth Hence his quotation marks,genius.
@@envirotruth He wasn't saying they were hence why he used quotation marks
Wow - The native Americans are a lot more organized than I thought.
Amazing luck that carriage hit a rock.
Loved the editing with the fires on the map, and the gunshot.
Noticed you also had help filming scenes - the quality is great!
Just wait until you read about Hiawatha or Tecumseh
I lived in Sudbury, Austin Rd., for several years and never heard of this battle. I have heard of King Phillips War but associated it Greenfield, where I also lived for a while. I never knew it got that far East.
I had to read a detailed history of wars with Algonquin peoples in the Northwest territories (Ohio, Michigan, Indiana...) when I was in high school.
The Northwest Indian confederacy was capable of deploying organized groups as large as 1500 men. They were typically well-led and more effective than what the US government could send against them between 1785-1792. This is evident in the failed Harmar campaign and St. Clair's defeat (the near complete annihilation of a US government force of 1000 men, which made Little Bighorn look like a walk in the park).
The problem was that the US could take those losses and would field larger and more professional forces as time went on. The battle of Fallen Timbers, which ended that incarnation of the Northwestern coalition of tribes (which would eventually be reformed under Tecumseh), wasn't even all that costly in terms of lives. Little Turtle simply saw the writing on the wall in the first skirmish. His British 'allies' had abandoned him as soon as they heard gunshots. Even if he had defeated the US force (which was 3x the size of and far more capable than the one he had annihilated a few years before), the losses would be unsustainable and the US would likely send an even larger expedition the next year. There was no path to victory.
I know this is a 2 year old comment, but if you haven't, read "The Comanche Empire" by Pekka Hämäläinen. I am still getting through it but it is a detailed history and attempt at reconstructing the Comanche nation as a fluid and political institution that quickly built itself into something of an empire that preyed on the colonizers, a wonderful reversal of our typical historical learning. The book does a fantastic job at showing how the Comanche were neither savages nor passive people but active actors in history with complex institutions and diplomatic and political know-how. There are many, many tribes like this, it is simply a matter of reading organization in what we traditionally think of as unorthodox or disorganized. History really is a system of constant revisions of memories, and these revisions can happen quickly when nations like mine (The US) do not like the full narrative that they went through.
This is why I say that the modern narrative around the natives, of them being all innocent and peace loving and militarily weak is an insult to the natives. They had strong military cultures, and were highly competent soldiers. Even The Lone Ranger was more respectful to natives than most liberals today, showing them as strong and proud people, who would die fearlessly to protect their land
I like how you use the soundtrack from ravenous it gives it an eerie field
@Derry Douglas it's his favorite movie
Thanks for the id on that. That music is awesome
I believe he was my ninth great Grandfather Ensign Jonathan Stanhope was hurt in the battle from an ambush and survived! Glad to see you cover the story of the Battle. I know now he was with Wadsworth.
My 9th great grandfather Hugh Mason led troops in the sudbury fight.
Three books are must reads for this important, yet overlooked facet, of American history. They are Douglas Edward Leach's "Flintlock and Tomahawk: New England in King Philip's War," Eric B. Schultz and Michael J. Tougias' collaborated work "King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict," and Michael Dekker's "French and Indian Wars in Maine."
nathaniel hawthornes mayflower depicts king philip as a coward who always ran first , u tell me cuz i dont know for sure .
Thank you.. I was looking for something like this..
I'm gonna look for them.
The Indians fought like the Viet Cong in 1964-65: launching multi-company/battalion attacks across a broad area and relying heavily on speedy off-road maneuver & road ambushes to economize on force. They also seemed to rely on rapidly massing overwhelming numbers at the tactical level and having difficulties in attacking fortified positions.
Who doesn't have difficulty attacking a fortified position?
@@unofficial_computer Flamethrowers, grenadiers, and artillerymen.
@@michaelmccabe3079 Flamethrowers and grenades can still struggle, especially if the fortified position is concrete or brick and the people are firing back.
Artillery can be somewhat inaccurate and won't always destroy a fortified position.
Yes that's the whole point of a fortified position.
The firearms used would probably be muskets, matchlock or maybe early flintlocks. Muskets had smoothbore barrels whereas rifles had rifled grooves in the barrel to make the bullet spin.
Dude. The muskets were flint locks. The Indians had flint locks. The English had match locks.
@@pnickerson He said rifle. Muskets are smoothbore. Rifles came later with German immigrants in the early 1700s. Dude
@@DSS-jj2cw You must be doing drugs.
@@pnickerson Both sides used a variety of outdated matchlock and newly introduced muzzleloading firearms.The natives had what they could take by their enemies and smugglers.
Please read "The Sulking Way of War" by Patrick Malone. This book tells all about the weapons and tactics of both the natives and the colonists..
4:08 A similarity on Foster Hill in Brookfield, MA. The garrison was attacked with a burning cart. The first attempt was extinguished by the settlers with great risk. On the second attempt, a rain shower swept through, put out the flames, and dampened further attempts.
TY for remembering a lost era of early American history.
Thank you for teaching me my History.
My Native Chickamaugee-Cherokee family finally thrived in the late 20th c. due to their understanding of automobiles and electrical engineering, but we also know of never ending conflict, hunger, poverty and war. My small family has mostly since passed on, but my brothers are still relatively young.
Thanks.
All this happened in my back yard as a kid, I grew up in Wayland on the Sudbury river just a stones throw from Sudbury. I can remember as a kid ghost stories of a spectral Native American on horseback being seen as my neighborhood was being built in the late 1960’s.
As a boy, we would get into the woods a lot and we once discovered a colonial dump, the women at the Wayland antique exchange were more than happy to give us fifty cents for complete black glass bottles, they’re worth thousands today. Great video!!!!!
I’m a distant relation to one of the concord men. This is the most I’ve ever learned about it. Thank you
Now that is an epic retelling of a significant battle a century before the Revolution!
He mentioned this being the 'Little Big Horn' of the Colonial Wars in the East. I'd also add in the similarity to the 'Fetterman Fight' as well, considering how easily the English would fall prey to devastating ambush tactics in this war.
Battle of Moore's Brook in Maine was more of the same. It seems every time Englishmen see a few Indians they go after them and get ambushed. My family lost two in this battle ON THEIR OWN LAND!!!! How can anyone be so unaware. My ancestors became refugees to Boston twice during indian wars.
@@rogerlibby14613 To be fair, I'd imagine that those giving chase were either enraged (in the course of combat or out of a desire to avenge a real or imagined wrong) or worried that failing to give chase would encourage the Indians in question to regroup and reappear in larger numbers.
Damn. This would make an absolutely awesome horror action movie, and it could be made pretty cheaply. No need for CGI, could be filmed easily on location. Have it follow primarily Wadsworth's men, with other scenes focusing more on a group like the men at the Garrison who fought during the morning and King Philip and his own native warriors. Could be a legitimately great movie.
Damn that's a good idea. I'd watch that
Glad to see someone do a documentary on King Philip's war. Very well done and hope to see more documentaries on New Englands history
Happy New Year!
Just found your channel. I also just watched the King Phillips War video. Great videos. Looking forward to watch the rest while I paint today! :)
Great vid, I cannot wait to see this channel blossom into something great
This is brilliant. What a fella like me wants to see from UA-cam . Not all these prefab channels. Exactly the same. You stand out in the best of ways.❤❤👍🤘🤘🤘🤘
Fantastic.
This is one GREAT documentary.
Wow!! I’ve been studying king Philips war for some 25 years and this is by far the best Sudbury video I’ve ever seen thank you!
Clay Feeter, York Maine
(Descendant of many KPW veterans and victims including Wm. & John Salisbury who were among first to die and also Capt. Benjamin Church my 8th great grand uncle).
Excellent! Many thanks for this.
Great video. Having grown up in olde Plymouth County in MA in Mansfield and SOmerset (next door to Swansea). I too was fascinated from a young age with King Philip's war. It is regarded as the most successful Indian campaign in North America. Thanks for sharing!
Love your series. Informative and entertaining.
Thank you for your great work. I was searching for quick "King Philip's War in a Nutshell" and you've made an excellent one.
Well done! Thank you.
No prob!
I just learned about King Phillips war during a nature wall with the Appache Mountain Club today. We were touring the FALL River Bioreserve just outside Westport, Ma and came across a supposed Camp Site/Resting area that King Phillip once occupied. Very interesting storytelling you been putting together here on this UA-cam channel of yours, I appreciate the good work you've done on this subject with the various videos you've put up. Thank you! Good work!
Such great videos. Watched your video on the king Philips war/ conjuring house history the other day. Love these videos so In depth
really engaging and thoughtfully presented, i grew up in natick and saw the markers about king phillip, but never investigated further. i am hooked!
Excellent, objective and entertaining. I do hope someone involved in this production teaches history to our young and perhaps at University level.
love how You get outdoors and show Us the reality of the situation,,,no blue screen or fake pictures,,cheers
Very good video, thank you.
Never heard of King Philip's War before i found your channel. Fascinating history. Once my local library opens back up I need to do some reading. 😊
Awesome video!!! Recently discovered your channel (literally 1/2 ago) and watched the King Phillips War episode. Have read a little bit about this war - not as familiar as I would like to be. THANKS!! for creating and sharing. Been wanting to make a visit to Massachusetts to visit Plymouth, Salem, Boston, Lexington/Concord for a long time. IF that ever happens, definitely will make the detour to the Sudbury area and visit the area of this war and walk the battle grounds - gain a better perspective.
This is good stuff man. I’ll have to grab a beer with you if I’m ever in town.
Great video, I grew up nearby. I love the use of the Ravenous soundtrack too
I grew up living on Green Hill Road, just down the street from where you shot the opening scene. I never really gave the war or the Sudbury fight much thought growing up, other than the more or less obligatory local history given in grade school and the various historical markers and sites scattered around. Learning more now, thanks for making and sharing this film.
EXCELLENT video
A very effective visual essay of this event!
Great video, like how you went to the actual hills and locations. Engaging narration
Thank you for work, Iam the tenth greatgrandson of Matthias Puffer. our family history reads that his wife and son were the first Massachusetts victims of the King Philips war in Mendon on July 10 or 14 1675.
While in the navy I was stationed at Groton, CT. I visited many historical places such as New London's, Fort Trumbull and Boston. At that time I never heard of King Philip's War so, I never visited any of these historical sites. I wish I had. I now live in Florida but maybe I will travel to New England once again and visit these sites. Thanks for the video.
You do good work
Great job!
I believe this should be a must watch for thanksgiving.
Thoroughly enjoy your videos here in Canada. Given the border is still closed to us to drive across I hope to visit some of the locations you identify. Keep up the good work.
Very well done.
Well done. This is a nice documentary of a story I knew nothing about.
Great job!!! As a New Englander I would love to see more of these videos... Maybe something having to do with the King Williams War next?
Little Bighorn of the east, what a great line.
great job on this story
I lived in the Pine Lakes neighborhood of Sudbury. Across the Willis Lake from my grandparents house was the foundation of Reese's Tavern. It was attacked as a feint. The attacking Natives allowed some men to escape. Some brought others. Some went to Sudbury Center to gather the women and children. They got ambushed at the river trying to get to Wayland. On Water Road are historical markers regarding this massacre.
It should be noted that Metacomet was the son of Massassoiet, who was integral in that first Thanksgiving, i.e. saved these pilgrms.
Who returned the favor by executing and then beheading his sons.
Just found your channel, lived in Wayland for 30 plus years (although in Cochituate) and had never heard of this (although I have been stoned on that bridge lol)
Happy Leif Erikson day 2022! Wooo. I drsnks so many cosmos I started watching about this king Phillips fella. Spooky shit yo
Good presentation
Excellent
these old ones are good but I like the direction you took
I stumbled upon your "check mate lincolnites"videos and I really, really enjoy the combination of levity and education, you are a great teacher and I am thusly subscribed to thee. The King Philips war-series is really interesting too, thank you for sharing that obscure part of history with us plebians!
Thank you so much.. Americans have no idea how much this conflict has formed our Consciousness As Americans
I am interested in the history of the native americans. Great Video.
Greetings from Germany
Growing up in Sudbury this is such a great find. Thank you
According to my genealogical research my ancestor Walley was a commander in KPW.good video. pretty balanced. thanks
Captain Michael Pierce is my ancestor. He was killed in an ambush on March 26, 1676
I kept thinking about the striking similarities between this battle and the battle of the Little Bighorn. I think the term “Little Bighorn of the East” is quite fitting
Muskets not rifles! >:(
Whoops!
Wood Glue perhaps even arquebus.
Irish Jester an arquebus is a muzzle loader, as is a musket. King Phillips war fell in that timeframe between arquebus (which were heavier, use a shooting rest, and had a wheel lock or matchlock mechanism) and the development of the flintlock musket.
Rifled Muskets did actually exist back then. They were less common and had some specific issues that contributed to that. They wouldn't have been anachronistic though
L J true. Rifled muzzleloaders were in use on mainland Europe as early as the first quarter of the 17th century but are quite difficult to load and fire because of the tighter fit of the projectile. Someone might have picked one up from Denmark in the prior 50 years.
In these small actions, I am confirmed by your expression and awareness of both combatants tactical, and strategic positions. The evidence of great tactical behaviour is evidential; the deficiency of these warfare techniques evidence of the conflict of economies, not of martial thinkers. As always, thank you for a presentation aware of modern scholarship.
"The Little Big Horn of the east." Good point. Sadly, the Native resistance in the east isn't given the historical notice as that of the Plains Indians much later. This despite the fact that the eastern Indian resistance occurred at a time when the Natives may have in fact prevailed and prevented European conquest of North America, whereas by the time of the plains wars, the conclusion was inevitable.
Excellent presentation about a little known event in America. As for the eastern natives, read Allan W. Eckert's "Winning of America" series of books. The event of the native ambush between the hills was a much used tactic in the time period of Eckert's books - early to mid 1700's thru the early 1800's. The eastern natives were every bit the hardened fighters the later 1800's natives out west we often associate with the "Indian Wars."
Excellent Video! I found it looking for more info on the Sudbury Fight. I live really close to the Hockamock Swamp area, Bridgewater. The swamp fight would be an excellent battle to do a video on. I was about to do an extensive tour of the Monuments and special areas this year to film and journal. But...... Anyway 3 Books I have downloaded from google books that have been amazing reads... Old Indian Chronicles, The Doings and Suffering of The Christian Indians [Gookin} and The Soldiers of King Philips War. Great sources. loads of things that are not in the popular books of today. Thank you again!
hi,i am going to see if i can get a copy of the soldiers of kp war,i have 2 grandfathers that fought in that that i know of,one of them,a burt had a lot to do with the north purchase and owned 44 square miles in taunton,that land was purchased directly from metacomet(king phillip)another grandfather was killed in turners falls in the kp war,both families came to new england in 1630,thats what got me interested in that history,the stones have been traced back to 1285,both families being english,i live in taunton if you ever want to talk over a coffee or beer,,,,,,,,,,wayne
@@waynecarter4200 absolutely. I work at Shoveltown Brewery in North Easton. Let's have a pint sometime. Since that comment a year ago, I found some amazing books.
There are so many great books out there...Right now I aim to buy the account of John Gabriel Stedman about the suppression of slave revolts in Surinam and captain Henry Keppel's account against the pirates of Borneo.19th centrury books are magic.
Very interesting! My 7th Great Grandfather died during this battle I believe. What I've found is that Marlborough states that he was slain between Sudbury and Marlboro April 20, 1676. The town record reads Henry Axtel April ____ 1676. Slain by the Indians between Sudbury and Marlborough upon ye Road. I hope to visit after I retire and can do some traveling.
Thank you so much
Untold history😋
Living in Massachusetts, you will always have something new to learn.
Also my sons mother is apart of the Wampanoag tribe.
Great topic and very interesting. Can you tell me the sources and books for the images used to illustrate the video? Thank you.
Great job!
Is it me, or i heard some excerpts of the soundtrack of Jim Jarmusch's "Down by Law" by John Lurie?
I just discovered that my 11th Great Grandfather John Howe Jr. was killed in this conflict at the age of 36.
Gotta make more videos of the natives of new England there forgotten in history
Unfortunately buried not forgotten, the untold amount of “false promises” from european settlers to the native tribes is nothing to be proud of, thats why they are better buried, history is not kind to the dishonourable.
These videos are great- I like the overall summary of the war - superb, probably the best account ive seen. I notice the history of the King Phillips war seems sketchy, especially on the Algonquin side. For example the battle of Sudbury is sometimes defined as a Algonquin victory, but other times a successful repel, the colonialist 'held off' the attack is how Wikipedia words. Interested in your take on that subject.
fascinating
Good videos. Do you have books on the shipments of the prisoners of war to slavery in the Caribbean islands such as Barbados, Jamaica and the southern USA -Carolinas.
Look at Jacobite Prison Ships on youtube.
I really wish these mini-documentaries on King Philip's War had proper citations somewhere, I could use them as sources for my college work.
Atun is the only channel with the #KingPhilipsWar
Nevermind theres The Daily Bellringer
Wouldn't they have been sing muskets, not rifles? Love the video man, fantastic editing
Have you ever done any thing on the French and Indian War in Upstate New York? I live in Glens Falls and have lived in the footprint of Fort Edward and on the outer battlefield of the Battle of Lake George. I am now acquiring permission to find and excavate 4 Mile Post, a small fort half way between Fort
william Henry and Fort Edward.
Excellent history free of modern political correctness. Thank you for this clear, historic story.
Excellent, our schools should be teaching this. Here I am thinking Sudburys most historic was when Shaq moved in. My Uncle lived on Dutton rd, 50s --> 90s. Rex Trailer and Pablos trusty Steeds Goldrush and the donkey whose name escapes me were boarded at this ranch that was a short walk through the woods. This was the 60s when it was undeveloped. Not sure if I could even find it now on a map.
Where in Wayland did you grow up? I live in Wayland a short walk away from the cemetery you show at 0:33. While exploring the area during quarantine, I found a marker for a battle fought during King Philip’s war not too far from my house
Edit: the marker is the one you show at 5:03. Iirc, it’s near the golf course on Old Sudbury Road.
Excellent commentary my advice would be to get a microphone on your lapel for more clarity
8:29 I was so immersed that I went "oh shii" when I heard that splat😂
I grew up in Lynnfield, not too far from you, and one day in about 1968 I found a stone arrowhead in my back yard. Being only about 12 years old, I thought the arrowhead must be a fake, because it was impossible for me to believe that Indian warriors had actually been in what I knew as my boring suburban back yard.
how about one of your excellent videos on the Great Swamp battle?
Check back in tomorrow.
Have you done anything about Captain Piece and his force in a fight in what would become Central Falls RI and the story of 9 Men's misery?
Wish I was able to fight there with my fellow native warriors
If you liked this video, read "King Phillips War and the Origins of American Identity". It is a great read that really goes in depth. It explains the background of "New England" at the time and why the natives came within inches of wiping the English out, but then turned on each other and defeated themselves with infighting and old mistrusts & grudges. This story should be made into a "Last of the Mohicans" type movie. Never in the history of America, did the native Americans come so close to driving out the European invaders.
I'm curious to know more about the history of the Haynes Garrison House. (Hmmmmm.... I wonder why? 🤔)