This 17th-Century Massacre in Connecticut was New England's 'Jamestown

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This 17th-Century Massacre in Connecticut

https://www.livescience.com/65144-17th-century-massacre-in-connecticut-jamestown.html

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Ct. declared war on the Pequot following the attack on Wethersfield, but the war actually started after the murder of an Englishman on a boat off Block Island. The natives were unfamiliar with total war, which is what the English practiced in attacking and burning the Pequot fort. In setting the fort on fire and burning to death women, children, and the elderly, the concept of total war was brought home to all the southern New England natives. It would be repeated in Dec. 1675, when colonial forces torched the Narragansett village hidden in the Great Swamp, killing hundreds of women and children. This style of total war was foreign to the tribes. In the attack on the Pequot village, it was reported that some of the Narragansett allies of the English fired their guns in the air, or retreated from the field, when they realized what the English were doing. That the English were willing to kill hundreds of women and children horrified their native allies.

Here is a great history of the Pequot War, and its battlefields:

https://pequotwar.org/about/