Pequot

of Puritans from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and members of a large Pequot village called Fort Mystic took place late at night. In this battle, the Puritans set fire to the Pequot village, killing most of the people in the village, including tribe leaders, women and children. Led by Major John Mason and Captain John Underhill, a mix of Puritans, Mohegans and Narragansetts, attacked the Pequot village at around 2 a.m. killed Pequot warriors with swords and guns, and when the rest of the…

are several wars that was fought in India. These wars led to the establishment of the British colonial in rule of India. In 1637, The English settlers broke out with the Pequot Indians. The war between the Pequot and the English was called the Pequot war. During this war all of the Indians were almost all wiped out. After the Pequot war there was the King’s Philip’s war. The English settlers knew King Philip as King Philip but the Indians knew him as metacomet. Metacomet rose up to resist the…

a man had his ears cut off or nose slashed open. The stories stretched to the expulsion of pregnant woman into the wilderness and horrors done to the Pequots that were so bad that it was not for children’s hearing (Brooks, 2011 p. 8). History tells about the Pequot war being an annihilation of the Pequot people and leading to the loss of the Pequot tribe as a polity. However, no historical records can be found that confirm all of these actions by Winthrop that Bethia…

20,000 in population and saw themselves as superior to the Native Americans. Massasoit felt disgruntled, as now the English people outnumbered them and began buying land with manipulation. During 1637, a raid was set out on the Pequot by the colonies that wiped out the Pequot…

Valley. The Puritans had one obstacle to their expansion: the Pequots. This war was a mix of numerous conflicts between the colonists and the Indians such as disputes over property, livestock, hunting, and dishonest traders. Colonists set fire to their villages, hunted them down killing some and selling others into slavery, and created a treaty that was to eliminate the Pequot nation. Jean O 'Brien, an Ojibwe historian, says that, “The Pequot war established in Indian minds the potential…

and in 1634, the start of the Pequot War. The Pequot War was a conflict between the Pequot people against the English colonists and their Native allies over land in Connecticut. The English colonists of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay were expanding into more territory. The Pequot people have lived on that land for several hundred years. The English colonists played a strategic move by aligning themselves with the Pequot’s enemies the Mohegan’s. In the end, the Pequot people were outnumbered and…

In 3,600 seconds, or 60 minutes, life in America changed, for both Indians and European settlers. In that one hour, the relationship between natives and the Europeans would never be the same. This event, known as the Massacre at Mystic, occurring May 26, 1637 forever condemned Indians and Europeans to centuries of suspicion, mistrust, and consequent pain and death. Up until that point, the Indians and the Europeans tried to work together. They traded, taught each other, and avoided conflict.…

The Puritans faced many trials and persecutions, the hardest part was trying to stay alive. These puritans stood up for what they believed in and did not ask questions and they undeniably had outstanding faith. In the end It’s what they believed in that pushed them to survive. It all began with the corruption of the Catholic church and when Thomas Cartwright (An English Puritan) wanted to reform the church. In 1590 Thomas was arrested for trying to reform it. Thirty years after that the…

battle for control of resources. The Pequot War was mainly to control trade, “The struggle for control of the fur and wampum trade in the Connecticut River valley was at the root of the Pequot War. Before the arrival of the English in the early 1630s, the Dutch and Pequot controlled all the region’s trade, but the situation was precarious because of the resentment held by the subservient Native American tribes for their Pequot overlords.” ( McBride). The Pequot war helped further divide the…

instance, the Pequot and the Connecticut colonist, they always had a rocky relationship between the two groups. There was little trust between them and their fur trade was not a solid one. They blamed each other for everything and the fighting got to the point the English colonist decided to go to war. May of 1637, Connecticut colonist alliance themselves with the Plymouth and Massachusetts colonies and talked the Mohegan and Narraganset Indian tribes into fighting with them against the Pequot…