The following winter a thousand of the best men of New England marched against the savage foe; they surprised the Narragansett fort and put to death probably seven hundred people in a night. By the spring of 1676 the Indians were on the defensive. Philip became a fugitive and escaped his pursuers from place to place. At length he was overtaken in a swamp in <A href="http://www.usahistory.info/New-England/Rhode-Island.html">Rhode Island by Captain Ben Church of Plymouth and was shot dead by one of his own race.