1636 AD–1638 AD
Pequot War and New England expansion
British Empire · Colonization & sovereignty · Slavery & coerced labor · War & conquest · Indigenous peoples & dispossession
English colonies and Indigenous allies fought the Pequot; the Mystic massacre and the enslavement and dispersal of survivors shattered their regional political power. The war opened land to colonial expansion, but the Pequot survived as a people
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