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1638 Map Poster 11"x12" Pequot War Native American Indians' Fort New England
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The figure of the Indians' fort or Palizado in NEW ENGLAND And the maner of the destroying It by Captayne Underhill And Captayne Mason.(see more info below)
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This is a modern reproduction of the original map.
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Size: 11"x12"
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The village of the Pequot Indians which was attacked and destroyed by Captain Underhill and Captain Mason in 1637.
Detailed map of the "Mystic massacre" in New England.
Below the image is an ink manuscript caption:
Facsimile made by Edward Bierstadt, from the original in the library of the New York Historical Society, of the Map in "Newes from America," an account of the Pequot War, by Captain John Underhill, published in London in 1638. The Fort referred to was "Seabrooke Fort" and "Lyes upon a River called Conetticut at the mouth of it," and "the destroying" occurred May 19, 1637.
Mystic Massacre
The map depicts the Mystic massacre, described thusly by Wikipedia:
The Connecticut towns raised a militia commanded by Captain John Mason consisting of 90 men, plus 70 Mohegans under sachems Uncas and Wequash. Twenty more men under Captain John Underhill joined him from Fort Saybrook. Pequot sachem Sassacus, meanwhile, gathered a few hundred warriors and set out to make another raid on Hartford, Connecticut.
At the same time, Captain Mason recruited more than 200 Narragansett and Niantic warriors to join his force. On the night of May 26, 1637, the Colonial and Indian forces arrived outside the Pequot village near the Mystic River. The palisade surrounding the village had only two exits. The Colonial forces attempted a surprise attack but met stiff Pequot resistance. Mason gave the order to set the village on fire and block off the two exits, trapping the Pequots inside. Those who tried climbing over the palisade were shot; anyone who succeeded in getting over was killed by the Narragansett fighters.
Pequot War
Wikipedia provides the following summary of the Pequot War:
The Pequot War was an armed conflict that took place between 1636 and 1638 in New England between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the colonists of 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 Pequots. At the end, about 700 Pequots had been killed or taken into captivity. Hundreds of prisoners were sold into slavery to the West Indies; other survivors were dispersed as captives to the victorious tribes.
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