Mystic Massacre: English Forces Destroy Pequot Village
English Captain John Mason and Mohegan allies surrounded a fortified Pequot village on the Mystic River in Connecticut and set it ablaze, killing approximately 500 men, women, and children in under an hour. The massacre effectively destroyed the Pequot nation and established a pattern of total warfare against Indigenous peoples that colonial and later American forces repeated across the continent.
May 26, 1637
389 years ago
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