Attack on Mistick Fort

At dawn English Allied forces surround the Pequot fortified village at Mistick.

English forces indiscriminately killed all fleeing Natives and accidently wounded allied Natives as well.

When the battle was over the English suffered two dead and twenty wounded

The combined English Allied force now consisted of 77 English, around 100 Mohegans and River Indians, and around 300 Narragansett and Niantics.

It was conceived they thus destroyed about 400. at this time.

but ye victory seemed a sweete sacrifice, and they gave the prays therof to God

others rane into their howses, & brought out fire, and sett them on fire, which soone tooke in their matts

Those yt scaped ye fire were slaine with ye sword

being we could not come at them, I then resolved to set it on fire after diverse of them were slain, and soe of our men sore wounded

Underhill chose to “set fire on the South end with a traine of Powder, the fires of both meeting in the center of the Fort.”

The Battle of Mistick Fort, while historically characterized a massacre (and rightfully so, as 400 men, women, and children died in the attack), was in fact a short but very intense battle between two highly capable adversaries that the English came very close to losing.

in less than two hours more than 400 Pequot men, women, and children lay dead; 200 of them burned to death.