Which event started the pequot war? colonists in providence wanted narragansett lands. pequot indians killed an english trader, which led to conflict. colonists offered to the pequot conquer the narragansett. new england colonists raided the food supplies at a pequot fort.

The event that started the Pequot War was the killing of an English trader, John Oldham, by Pequot Indians. That event, added to constant tensions between the Pequot Indians and the colonists, started the conflict. Other tribes, the Mohegan and the Narragansett, helped the colonists in the war.

The war occurred between 1636 and 1638. The Pequot, like its neighbors, had been seriously weakened by epidemics of bubonic plague, smallpox and hepatitis A in 1616-1619 and another of smallpox in 1633, losing from 55 to 95% of its population. The Pequot lost the war and five hundred to a thousand were killed (only 300 warriors) and 500 were taken prisoner and integrated by the neighboring tribes, another hundred were sold as slaves in the West Indies. Others were scattered. The defeated were almost exterminated and it would take them almost three and a half centuries to recover many of their original lands. The Mohegan and the Narragansett would end in 1643 declaring war on each other.

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