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 defeat and massacre Treaty of Hartford (1638)
Belligerents
Pequot tribe	Massachusetts Bay Plymouth Saybrook Connecticut Narragansett tribe Mohegan tribe
Commanders and leaders
Sachem Sassacus	Captain John Underhill John Mason Sachem Uncas Sagamore Wequash Cooke Sachem Miantonomoh

The Pequot War was an armed conflict that took place in 1636 and ended in 1638 in New England, between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the colonists from the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their allies from the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes. The war concluded with the decisive defeat of the Pequot. At the end, about 700 Pequots had been killed or taken into captivity.^[1] Hundreds of prisoners were sold into slavery to colonists in Bermuda or the West Indies;^[2] other survivors were dispersed as captives to the victorious tribes.

The result was the elimination of the Pequot tribe as a viable polity in southern New England, and the colonial authorities classified them as extinct. Survivors who remained in the area were absorbed into other local tribes.