The colony of Rhode Island becomes an…

The colony of Rhode Island becomes an island colony for a time, as the few hundred colonists there are driven back to Newport and Portsmouth on Aquidneck Island and the abandoned capital is burned to the ground on March 29.

The natives have succeeded in driving the colonists back into their larger towns, but the natives' supplies, nearly always sufficient for only a season or so, are running out.

The tide of war slowly begins to turn in the colonists' favor later in the spring of 1676 as it becomes a war of attrition, and both sides are determined to eliminate the other.