![]() ![]() Once they had made it to the top, in what they thought was a safer position, the Nipmuc set the dry brush of Green Hill aflame. Wadsworth’s company, joined by Captain Brocklebank and a few garrison soldiers from Marlborough (about eighty English in all), held out for four hours in a square formation, making their way slowly up Green Hill and losing only five men in the process. This time the Nipmuc did not let Wadsworth pass by unscathed they ambushed the English troops from the high ground. Upon hearing the news Wadsworth immediately turned his troops around to return to Sudbury, but he made the fatal mistake of entering the valley between Green Hill and Goodman’s Hill. ![]() Just as the sun began to slip over the horizon, the Nipmuc set fire to Sudbury. ![]() There they “lay near Passage” of Captain Samuel Wadsworth of Milton, keeping “themselves undiscovered and permit him to passe them in the night” as Wadsworth marched his seventy men through town en route to nearby Marlborough. Led by the sachem Muttawmp, about five hundred warriors, mostly Nipmuc (and possibly including Metacom, also known as King Philip), left their camp at Mount Wachusett on the evening of April 20 and stole into Sudbury village on the eastern side of the Sudbury River. ![]()
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