16-25, 41-45, 46-56, 64-80.] %66.

Early Indian Wars.%--Again and again this frontier was attacked.
In 1636 the Pequots, who dwelt along the Thames River in Connecticut, made war on the settlers in the Connecticut River valley towns.

Men were waylaid and scalped, or taken prisoners and burned at the stake.
Determined to put an end to this, ninety men from the Connecticut towns, with twenty from Massachusetts and some Mohegan Indians, in 1637 marched against the marauders.

They found the Pequots within a circular stockade near the present town of Stonington, where of 400 warriors all save five were killed.
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King Philip's War.%--During nearly forty years not a tribe in all New England dared rise against the white men.