The English pursued them as far as they could go for the swamps, and overtook the rear of the detachment, killing sixteen of them.
At the solicitation of Benjamin Church, a company of thirty-six men were placed under him and Captain Fuller, who on the 8th of July marched down into Pocasset Neck.

This force, small as it was, afterward divided, Church taking nineteen of the men and Fuller the remaining seventeen.
The party under Church proceeded into a point of land called Punkateeset, now the southerly extremity of Tiverton, where they were attacked by a body of three hundred Indians.

After a fight of a few moments, the English fell back to the seashore, and thus saved themselves from destruction, for Church perceived that it was the intention of the Indians to surround them.

Every one expected death, but resolved to sell their lives as dearly as possible.

Thus hemmed in, Church had a double duty to perform--that of preserving the spirit of his followers, several of whom viewed their situation as desperate, and erecting piles of stone to defend them.
Boats had been appointed to attend the English on this expedition, and the heroic party looked for relief from this quarter; but, though the boats appeared, the bullets of the Indians made them preserve a respectable distance, until Church, in a moment of vexation, cried: "Be off with you, cowards, and leave us to our fate!" The boats took him at his word.
The Indians, now encouraged, fought more desperately than before.