From the NYTs:
JUST a short stroll from the modern-day shops and restaurants of downtown Mystic, English settlers and their Indian allies attacked a fort of Pequot Indians in June 1637 and then set it on fire, killing 500 men, women and children. Battles continued throughout the day as Pequots from other villages counterattacked the English as they retreated to the west.
That battle and others across Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York marked some of the fiercest fighting in the 1636-38 Pequot War, a little-known conflict that allowed the English to defeat the mighty Pequot and set the stage for how the emerging nation would treat Indian tribes over the next three centuries.
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