[Pharmboy]

They do not mention it here, but those early wars were pretty bloody on both sides. Reading just this, one might get the feeling that it was just the colonists who resorted to brutish techniques.

[JennysCool]

Can you dig it ping ...

[Zeppelin]

Historians say the attack was a turning point in English warfare with native tribes. It nearly wiped out the powerful Pequots and showed other tribes that the colonists wouldn't hesitate to use methods that some consider genocide.

That's a revisionist "historian" way of putting it.

Or perhaps this was simply a battle fought in a time when men were men and sought to destroy their enemies, lest they come back seeking vengeance.

[Zeppelin]

cool find though...I’ll be interested to see what all they uncover as time goes on.

[militant2]

Never bring a bow and arrows to a musket fight.....!!

Militant

[Pharmboy]

The Pequot Indians, once a powerful tribe, controlled all of Connecticut east of the Connecticut River. The tribe numbered 2,500, and its name meant "Destroyer." After they were defeated by colonists in the Pequot War of 1637, the Pequots' influence diminished significantly, and many of them were sold into slavery. In 1655, some Pequots were released and resettled onto a strip of land near New Haven. Although he tribe gradually dispersed, those that remained in Connecticut were forced to share their land with great numbers of English settlers. By 1735, the colonists had encroached so severely on the Indians' land, cutting down their timber and stealing their crops, that the Pequots petitioned Governor Joseph Talcott for help. None was forthcoming, and the Pequot population continued to dwindle, so that by 1850 the number of full- blooded Pequot Indians was down to forty. The above graphic and copy from here.

Thanks to the Free Republic's resident scholar SunkenCiv for alerting me to this story...

The RevWar/Colonial History/General Washington ping list...

[Berlin_Freeper]

The English are great warriors.

[Red Badger]

I wonder, what part of “WAR” does this writer not understand?.......................

[NonValueAdded]

Imagine a Connecticut Yankee in Sachem Sassacus’ Court trying to explain Foxwoods.

[Jacquerie]

The Pequot War convinced several colonies to band together for mutual protection from the French and Indians. They formed The New England Confederation. It lasted about 40 years. During the English Civil Wars, the colonies were on their own; no help came from the mother country. French foreign policy was one of containment of the prosperous English in North America. It is why after 150 years, the colonies were still huddled along the Atlantic seaboard.

The confederation was something of a precursor to the colonies’ response to another threat in the mid 1770s.

[colorado tanker]

And today they have the largest resort casino in the world . . . .

[Theophilus]

I always thought King Philip's war was the first war between the Indians and the Colonists. I'm glad to learn about this one.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

How those sweet little Indians fought before the white man came...

http://www.dickshovel.com/scalp.html

[kickstart]

I hope they don’t find any lead musket balls. If they do, they will have to declare the area a hazardous waste dump, just like my shooting club in Massholechusetts.

[Theophilus]

I always thought King Philip's war was the first war between the Indians and the Colonists. I'm glad to learn about this one.

[wardaddy]

none of today’s academia dwells on Indian atrocities yet here in Middle Tn I see evidence of it frequently in markers from back in the day when history was more honest and factual

[mewzilla]

An interesting article that deals with the point you made. Scroll down for the section on the Pequot War.

Howard Zinn's Biased History

And thanks for the thread!