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The Pequot War was the first serious armed conflict between the indigenous peoples and the European settlers in New England.

The ravages of disease, coupled with trade pressures, invited the Pequots to tighten their hold on the river tribes.

Additional incidents began to involve the colonists in the area in 1635, and next spring their raid on Wethersfield prompted the three towns to meet.

Following the raid on Wethersfield, the war climaxed when 300 Pequot men, women, and children were burned out of their village, hunted down and massacred.