King Philip's War and The Sudbury Fight

288 Old Sudbury Rd,Sudbury MA 01776

22 September, 2022

Description

King Philip’s War is considered by many historians to be the deadliest war in Colonial American history. In the space of little more than a year, 12 towns were destroyed, the colonial economy was all but ruined and the population was decimated. Sudbury itself was the scene of a brutal battle in April 1676 between the town's Puritan settlers and the area's Nipmuc warriors. Yet, few people outside of New England know about King Philip’s War. More than 2,500 colonists died, while at least twice as many Native Americans were killed; the war effectively ended Native American resistance in New England. Public historian Richard Smith will discuss the causes of the war, how it affected both the colonists and indigenous people of Sudbury, and the ramifications of what has been called the greatest calamity in seventeenth-century New England. Richard Smith is a public historian in Concord, Massachusetts. He has lectured on and written about 17th, 18th and 19th Century United States history, Transcendentalism, and 19th-century American literature since 1995. Richard has written six books for Applewood Books and is the current Scholar in Residence at Longfellow's Wayside Inn in Sudbury.