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Mystic massacre
The Mystic massacre took place on May 26, 1637, during the Pequot War, when English settlers under Captain John Mason, and Narragansett and Mohegan allies set fire to a fortified Pequot village near the Mystic River. They shot any people who tried to escape the wooden palisade fortress and killed the entire village, consisting mostly of women and children, in retaliation for previous Pequot attacks.〔( The Society of Colonial Wars: 1637 – The Pequot War. )〕 The only Pequot survivors were warriors who had been with their sachem Sassacus in a raiding party outside the village.
==Background==
The Pequot were the dominant Native American tribe in northern to eastern Connecticut and had long competed with the neighboring Mohegan and Narragansett. When the English and Dutch arrived, they established trade policies, trading such things as wampum for European goods.
The Pequot eventually allied with the Dutch, while the Mohegan and others allied with the British. European population growth led to greater encroachment, leading to eventual conflict with indigenous populations. A series of Eurasian infectious diseases, such as smallpox, to which the Native Americans had no immunity, drastically reduced the Pequot population, tipping the population balance in high favor of the settlers.〔
When a trader named John Oldham was killed and his trading ship looted by natives suspected to be Pequot,〔 retaliation raids by settlers and their native allies ensued, and Pequots responded in kind, erupting into the Pequot War.
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