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The Covenant & the Charter - The Pequot War
In July 1636, a Boston trader named John Gallop sailed alongside a drifting pinnace off Block Island and found his friend John Oldham dead inside it — head crushed, body mutilated, two surviving nephews captive in the hold. Oldham’s murder was real. What followed was not just a response to it.
The Pequot War of 1636 to 1638 was the first full-scale military conflict between English colonists and a native nation in New England — and it was the first time on this continent that two war cultures, optimized for two different problems, met in the field. European war culture by 1637 had been forged…
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