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They burned to the ground forty dwelling-houses, the church, and all the barns and out-houses. The cattle were fortunately saved, being inclosed within palisades under the protection of the garrisons. A notorious Nipmuck chief, Monoco, called by the English One-eyed John, led this expedition.
We will burn Chelmsford, Concord, Watertown, Cambridge, Charlestown, Roxbury, and Boston. I have four hundred and eighty warriors with me; we will show you what we will do." But a few months after this Monoco was taken prisoner, led through the streets of Boston with a rope round his neck, and hanged at the town's end. On the 17th of March, Warwick, in Rhode Island, was almost entirely destroyed.
His operations menaced and endangered the existence of the colony. There was a probability that the taunting threat of John Monoco, the leader of the party which burned Groton, that he would burn Chelmsford, Concord, Watertown, Cambridge, Charlestown, Roxbury and Boston, might even be executed.
While the church was in flames, Monoco shouted to the men in the garrison, assailing them with every variety of Indian vituperative abuse. He had been so much with the English that he understood their language very well. "What will you do for a place to pray in," said he, "now that we have burned your meeting-house?
An unpleasant surprise. A conflagration. The Indians retire. Philip's letter. Indian warfare. An ambuscade. A decoy. The town burned. Monoco's threats. Monoco hung. Destruction of Warwick. Alarm from the Indians. Exultation of the Indians. Defeat of the Plymouth army. Nanuntenoo. Plan of action. A stratagem, and its success. Defeat certain. Heroic defense. An escape. Escape of the Indians.
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