Mystic massacre
MASSACRE OF NATIVE AMERICANS DURING THE PEQUOT WAR
Mystic Massacre; Pequot massacre; The Mystic River Massacre; The Mystic Massacre; Massacre at Mystic; Mystic River Massacre; Mystic River massacre; Fort Mystic massacre
The Mystic massacrealso known as the Pequot massacre and the Battle of Mystic Forttook place on May 26, 1637 during the Pequot War, when Connecticut colonists under Captain John Mason and their Narragansett and Mohegan allies set fire to the Pequot Fort near the Mystic River. They shot anyone who tried to escape the wooden palisade fortress and killed most of the village in retaliation for previous Pequot attacks.