The Indians drew the Concord people into an ambuscade and only one escaped.
The best Indian warrior makes a poor general.

He has no ability to preserve an organization, and soon calamities began to befall Philip.
They were small at first; but they tended to discourage his followers.
First the Deerfield Indians abandoned his cause, and many of the Nipmucks and Narragansetts followed.

Still, Philip, though he had not been much seen during the winter, and it is doubtful where he had spent the most of it, had no intention of abating his efforts against the English.
In the month of May, 1676, he appeared at the head of a powerful force in northern Massachusetts.

Large bodies of Indians about this time took up positions at the Connecticut River falls, where they were attacked and routed by Captain Turner.

One hundred were left dead on the field and a hundred and forty more went over the falls.