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Sep 16, 2022 · Quick Facts About the Pequot War. The Pequot War was the first time English colonists fought a war against Indian tribes in New England. The war started in 1634 when trader John Stone was killed by Western Niantic Indians. The war officially ended when the Treaty of Hartford was signed on September 21, 1638.
Mar 3, 2010 · During the Pequot War, an allied Puritan and Mohegan force under English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, burning or massacring some 500 Native American women, men...
Causes of the Pequot War. The primary cause of the Pequot War was the struggle to control trade. English efforts were to break the Dutch-Pequot control of the fur and wampum trade, while the Pequot attempted to maintain their political and economic dominance in the region.
Mar 27, 2019 · The explosive chain of events that sparked the first full-scale war between European settlers and Native Americans in New England began on September 5, 1636, when a convoy of three ships from Boston bearing a force of 90 musketeers, officers, and pikemen dropped anchor in Pequot Harbor (now the Thames River between New London and Groton, Connec...
Mar 6, 2017 · The Pequot War: 1634-1638. Fighting during the Pequot War. Library of Congress. By. Kennedy Hickman. Updated on March 06, 2017. The 1630s were a period of great unrest along the Connecticut River as various Native American groups battled for political power and control of trade with the English and Dutch.
After years of confrontations over land, trade, and livestock, the Connecticut Colony formally declared war on the Pequot and their allies on May 1, 1637. At the time of the war, the Pequot resided in what is now southeastern Connecticut.
Pequot, Algonquian-speaking North American Indians who lived in the Thames valley in what is now Connecticut. The Pequot War (1636-37) fought against a coalition of English settlers and their Native American allies eliminated the Pequot as an impediment to English colonization of southern New England.
