After more than 370 years, the Pequot War (1636-1638) remains one of the most controversial and significant events in Colonial and Native history of America.

The Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, funded by the National Park Service American Battlefield Protection Program, is identifying and preserving battlefields and historical sites associated with the Pequot War. The primary goal of this project is the identification of battlefield sites and obtaining physical evidence of these through non-invasive archaeological investigations. Partnering with the Office of the Connecticut State Archaeologist, the Connecticut State Historian and many local historical societies, research centers and museums from Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New York, the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center has undertaken a comprehensive study to research all aspects of the Pequot War.

The Pequot War consisted of far more than the single attack by the English and their Native allies on the Pequot’s fortified village at Mystic, Connecticut, on June 11, 1637. The war lasted for more than two years with major battles in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York. Indigenous people, including the Sasqua of Fairfield, the Quinnipiac of New Haven, the Western Niantic, the Mohegan, the Narragansett, the Nipmuck, the Wangunk, the Podunk, and the Mohawk of New York, fought both with and against the Europeans and the Pequot.