Pequot War

Pequot War
Part of the American Indian Wars
A 19th-century engraving depicting an incident in the Pequot War
Date July 1636 – September 1638 Location New England Result Pequot defeated Treaty of Hartford
Belligerents
Pequot tribe	English Colonists Massachusetts Bay Colony Plymouth Colony Saybrook Colony Connecticut Colony Native American Allies Narragansett tribe Mohegan tribe
Commanders and leaders
Sachem Sassacus	John Underhill John Mason Sachem Uncas Sagamore Wequash Sachem Miantonomoh

English Colonists

Native American Allies

The Pequot War was an armed conflict between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their Native American allies (the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes) which occurred between 1634 and 1638. The war concluded with the Pequots losing. At the end, about seven hundred Pequots had been killed or taken into captivity. Hundreds of prisoners were sold into slavery to the West Indies; other survivors were dispersed. The result was the elimination of the Pequot tribe as a viable polity in present-day Southern New England. The colonial authorities classified the tribe as extinct; however, survivors remained in the area and did regain recognition and land along the Thames and Mystic rivers in southeastern Connecticut.

The name Pequot is a Mohegan term, the meaning of which is in dispute among Algonquian-language specialists. Most recent sources claim that "Pequot" comes from Paquatauoq (the destroyers), relying on the theories of early 20th-century authority on Algonquian languages Frank Speck, an anthropologist and specialist of Pequot-Mohegan in the 1920s–1930s. He had doubts about this etymology, believing that another term seemed more plausible, after translation relating to the "shallowness of a body of water".

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