Determined to expand westward, the English went to war with the Pequot Indians. The Pequot War culminated when the English and their Narragansett allies brutally attacked a Pequot fort at Mystic, Connecticut, in 1637. John Underhill, an English captain who helped lead the raid, claimed that four hundred Pequots were killed during the short but bloody battle. By the end of the war, most Pequots had either died, been sold into slavery, or fled the region. The following image, an engraving created by Underhill himself, gives the English perspective on the attack.

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