Renaissance · North America · War

1637

Pequot War Ends

1637

English colonists from Connecticut and Massachusetts, with Narragansett and Mohegan allies, surrounded a Pequot fortified village on the Mystic River and set it ablaze, burning several hundred men, women, and children inside. The Pequot nation was broken as a political power. New England's land grab had found its method, and the pattern of alliance, betrayal, and annihilation was set.

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Before and after in North America

Before: 1636: Providence Plantations
After: 1638: Anne Hutchinson Banished

Before and after in War

Before: May 19, 1635: France Enters the Thirty Years' War
After: 1638: Siege of Baghdad by the Ottomans

Era

Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Pequot War