On This Date In 1676 During King Philip's War, Captain William
Turner of the Massachusetts Militia and a group of about 150
militia volunteers (mostly minimally trained farmers) attacked a
large fishing camp of Native Americans at Peskeopscut on the
Connecticut River (now called Turners Falls, Massachusetts). The
colonists claimed they killed 100–200 Native Americans in
retaliation for earlier Indian attacks against Deerfield and
other colonist settlements and the colonial losses in the Battle
of Bloody Brook. Turner and nearly 40 of the militia were killed
during the return from the falls. On This Date In 1776 Through
May 27, the Battle of The Cedars was fought, a series of
military confrontations early in the American Revolutionary War
during the Continental Army's invasion of Quebec that had begun
in September 1775. The skirmishes involved limited combat
between Continental Army units opposed by a small number of
British troops leading a larger force of Indians (primarily
Iroquois), and militia. On This Da