<p>This episode is the first in a three-part series, exploring the history of King Philip's War in Western Massachusetts. This episode focuses on the start of the war in the summer and fall of 1675, with an emphasis on the Battle of Bloody Brook in South Deerfield. The battle occurred in modern-day South Deerfield on September 18, 1675, when Nipmuc, Wampanoag, and Pocumtuck warriors ambushed a group of English soldiers. The battle was one of the deadliest of the war for the English, and it was subsequently commemorated with what may have been the first European war memorial in British North America.</p> <p>Sources for this episode included the following books and other resources:</p> <p><em>King Philip's War</em> by Eric B. Schultz and Michael J. Tougias</p> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/historyofdeerfie01shel" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>A History of Deerfield Massachusetts</em></a><em> </em>by George Sheldon</p> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/kingphilipswar0000geor/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>King Philip's War</em></a><em> </em>by George W. Ellis and John E. Morris</p> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/historyofkingphi00math/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>The History of King Philip's War</em></a> by Increase Mather</p> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/soldiersinkingph00bodg" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>Soldiers in King Philip's War</em></a> by George M. Bodge</p> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/historyoftownofn00temp" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>A History of the Town of Northfield, Massachusetts</em></a> by Josiah Howard Temple and George Sheldon</p> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/travelsinnewengl02unse" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>Travels in New-England and New York</em> Vol. 2</a> by Timothy Dwight IV</p> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/historicalcollec00barb_0" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>Historical Collections</em></a> by John Warner Barber</p> <p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=iqE-AAAAYAAJ&amp;rdid=book-iqE-AAAAYAAJ&amp;rdot=1" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>An Address Delivered at Bloody Brook</em></a> by Edward Everett</p> <p><a href="https://historic-deerfield.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Remaking-History-Memory-Commemoration-and-the-Bloody-Brook-Monuments.pdf" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">"(Re) Making History: Memory, Commemoration, and the Bloody Brook Monuments"</a> by Barbara Mathews and Peter A. Thomas</p>