On April 23, 1637, approximately 200 Pequot warriors attacked Wethersfield, Connecticut, killing nine English settlers and destroying livestock in response to the expanding colonial presence threatening their food supplies and territorial control. Though smaller than Virginia's Jamestown massacre, this raid triggered the brutal Pequot War, culminating in the May 1637 Mystic River Massacre where colonial forces and Native allies killed roughly 500 Pequots and virtually eliminated the tribe. Recen