Pequot War

(noun)

An armed conflict spanning the years 1634–1638 between an Algonquin tribe and an alliance of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies who were aided by the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes.

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  • The Pequot War

    • The Pequot War was the first war between Native Americans and English settlers in northeastern America and foreshadowed European domination.
    • At the time of the Pequot War, Pequot strength was concentrated along the Pequot (now Thames) and Mystic Rivers.
    • The story of the Pequot War is a key element in colonial history.
    • Two events weakened the Pequot prior to their war with the English.
    • That winter, the Pequot sent war belts to many surrounding tribes.

  • The Massachusetts Bay Colony

    • Some American Indians captured in the Pequot War were enslaved, with those posing the greatest threat being transported to the West Indies and exchanged for goods and slaves.
    • The Pequot War was the first war between American Indians and English settlers in northeastern America and foreshadowed European domination.
    • In May of 1637, the Puritans attacked a large group of several hundred Pequot along the Mystic River in Connecticut.
    • This turned the war against the Pequot and broke the tribe's resistance.
    • After the war, the colonists enslaved survivors and outlawed the name "Pequot."

  • King Philip's War

    • For nearly 50 years after the colonists' arrival, Massasoit of the Wampanoag had maintained an uneasy alliance with the English to benefit from their trade goods and as a counter-weight to his tribe's traditional enemies, the Pequot, Narragansett, and the Mohegan.
    • They were allowed to keep the possessions of warring Indians and received a bounty on all captives.
    • The war was the single greatest calamity to occur in 17th century Puritan New England.
    • Proportionately, it was one of the bloodiest and costliest wars in the history of North America.
    • King Philip, also known as Metacom, led the Wampanoag Indians in King Philip's War.

  • Rhode Island

    • Fleeing from religious persecution, Williams went on to found Providence Plantation in 1636 on land gifted by the Narragansett and Pequot tribes.
    • During King Philip's War (1675–1676), both sides regularly violated Rhode Island's neutrality.
    • The war's largest battle occurred in Rhode Island, when a force of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Plymouth militia invaded and destroyed the fortified Narragansett Indian village in the Great Swamp in southern Rhode Island in 1675.

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