<P> The settlements within the modern - day state of Rhode Island became a literal island colony for a time as the settlements at Providence and Warwick were sacked and burned, and the residents were driven to Newport and Portsmouth on Rhode Island . The Connecticut River towns had thousands of acres of cultivated crop land known as the bread basket of New England, but they had to limit their plantings and work in large armed groups for self - protection . Towns such as Springfield, Hatfield, Hadley, and Northampton, Massachusetts fortified themselves, reinforced their militias, and held their ground, though attacked several times . The small towns of Northfield, Deerfield, and several others were abandoned as the surviving settlers retreated to the larger towns . The towns of the Connecticut colony were largely unharmed in the war, although more than 100 Connecticut militia died in their support of the other colonies . </P> <P> The Attack on Sudbury was fought in Sudbury, Massachusetts on April 21, 1676 . The town was surprised by Indian raiders at dawn, but security precautions limited the damage to unoccupied homesteads . Reinforcements that arrived from nearby towns were drawn into ambushes by the Indians; Captain Samuel Wadsworth lost his life and half of a 60 - man militia in such an ambush . Afterwards, Indians made their way through much of Sudbury, but they were held off by John Grout and a handful of men until colonial reinforcements arrived to help in the defense . </P> <P> On May 18, 1676, Captain William Turner of the Massachusetts Militia and a group of about 150 militia volunteers (mostly minimally trained farmers) attacked an Indian fishing camp at Peskeopscut on the Connecticut River, now called Turners Falls, Massachusetts . The colonists killed 100--200 Indians in retaliation for earlier Indian attacks against Deerfield and other settlements and for the colonial losses in the Battle of Bloody Brook . Turner and nearly 40 of the militia were killed during the return from the falls . </P> <P> The colonists defeated an attack at Hadley on June 12, 1676 with the help of their Mohegan allies, scattering most of the Indian survivors into New Hampshire and farther north . Later that month, a force of 250 Indians was routed near Marlborough, Massachusetts . Combined forces of colonial volunteers and their Indian allies continued to attack, kill, capture, or disperse bands of Narragansetts, Nipmucs, and Wampanoags as they tried to plant crops or return to their traditional locations . The colonists granted amnesty to those who surrendered or who were captured and showed that they had not participated in the conflict . Captives who had participated in attacks on the many settlements were hanged, enslaved, or put to indentured servitude, depending upon the colony involved . </P>

Describe the strategy of metacom's war against the british in 1675