Examples of Pequot in the following topics:
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- At the time of the Pequot War, Pequot strength was concentrated along the Pequot (now Thames) and Mystic Rivers.
- The Mohegan became hostile to the Pequot.
- The Pequot leader, Sassacus, was captured on July 28.
- The Pequot, once a powerful Indian nation, were destroyed .
- Discuss the tensions between the North Eastern Colonists and Pequot Indians that eventually culminated in the Pequot War.
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- 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.
- The English, supported by Uncas's Mohegan, pursued the remaining Pequot resistors until all were either killed or captured and enslaved.
- After the war, the colonists enslaved survivors and outlawed the name "Pequot."
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- 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.
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- Fleeing from religious persecution, Williams went on to found Providence Plantation in 1636 on land gifted by the Narragansett and Pequot tribes.