Conflicts

Massachusetts

279 engagements recorded

Algonquian-Iroquoian Frontier Violence

Deerfield Pre-Contact Violence Site

Pocumtuck Destruction – Deerfield

Wessagusset (Weston) Colony Massacre 1623

Wessagusset Affair

Squaw Sachem Campaign 1639

Pocumtuck Destruction — Mohawk Attack 1664

Wampanoag Lands Dispute 1671

Northfield Raids (King Philip's War)

Fall River Raid

Sassamon Murder (KPW trigger, 1675)

Raid on Northfield (KPW, 1675)

Mendon MA Raid 1675

Wheeler's Surprise (Brookfield Ambush)

First Deerfield Raid

Northfield Abandoned 1675

Attack on Bridgewater 1675

Dartmouth Raid 1675

Attack on Swansea 1675

Pocasset Swamp Fight

Attack on Hatfield 1675

Battle of Brookfield (King Philip's War)

Kipp's Fight / Pocasset Swamp

Raid on Northfield MA (King Philip's War — Second)

Raid on Springfield MA

Attack on Northampton 1675

King Philip's War – Raid on Middleborough MA 1675

Wheeler's Surprise at Brookfield

Battle of Springfield Burning

Deerfield Meadow Fight 1675

Battle of Springfield 1675

Battle of Bloody Brook 1675

Raid on Northfield MA 1675

Bloody Brook Ambush (Capt. Lathrop 1675)

Swansea Raids — King Philip's War Opening

Deerfield Abandonment and Meadow Fight

Taunton MA First Raid (King Philip's War)

Battle of Hatfield

Raid on Deerfield August 25 1675

First Lancaster Raid

Hatfield MA Second Attack 1675

Battle of Bloody Brook (King Philip's War)

Attack on Taunton 1675

Battle of Bloody Brook MA Sept 18 1675

Attack on Deerfield 1675 (King Philip's War)

Attack on Brookfield (Wheeler's Surprise)

Bloody Brook Massacre

Battle of Bloody Brook (Deerfield 1675)

Siege of Brookfield Garrison

Northfield Raid

Ambush at Nipmucs Hill MA 1675

Deerfield Raid 1675

Battle of Muddy Brook (Captain Beers)

Attack on Deerfield (grain convoy) 1675

Attack on Mendon MA (King Philip's War)

Battle of Eck's Tavern (King Philip's War)

Swansea Siege and Relief 1675

Battle of Hadley MA Sept 1 1675

First Attack on Swansea 1675

Swansea Attack (King Philip's War begins)

Hadley MA Raid (King Philip's War — "Angel of Hadley")

Attack on Springfield

Raid on Brookfield MA 1675

Ambush at Wheeler's Surprise (1675)

Battle of Bloody Brook

Battle of Northampton MA 1675

Dartmouth Raid (King Philip's War)

Siege of Quabaug Fort (Brookfield Second Attack)

Attack on Brookfield 1675

King Philip's War — Battle of Bloody Brook

Hatfield Raid (Second Attack)

Attack on Northampton MA

Siege of Brookfield

Swansea MA Raid — KPW (June 1675)

Battle of Swansea (King Philip's War opening)

Attack on Swansea – First Blood of King Philip's War June 24 1675

Siege of Brookfield (Wheeler's Surprise) 1675

Quabaug Fort Siege (Second Brookfield) 1675

Battle of Northfield

Attack on Dartmouth 1675

Raid on Springfield MA 1675

Battle of Turner's Falls (Peskeompscut)

Attack on Weymouth 1676

King Philip's War – Raid on Plymouth Town 1676

Battle of Turner's Falls (Falls Fight)

Raid on Sudbury MA

Battle of Taunton 1676

Clark's Garrison Attack 1676

King Philip's War – Raid on Rehoboth MA 1676

Raid on Chelmsford MA (King Philip's War)

Ambush after Turner's Falls (Turner Killed)

Chelmsford Raid

Lancaster MA Gauntlet — After Mary Rowlandson Raid

Attack on Lancaster 1676

Battle of Lancaster (King Philip's War)

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