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Originally Posted by RedWingNut
Like it or not Sarah’s letter describes what actually happened. He who wins the war gets to write the history. Another example that the American public has been bombarded by fake news for a long, long time.
Counting your blessings and giving thanks does not require a special day, the realization of how fortunate we are should be a daily occurrence
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Sarah omitted this part of the saga which is in Wikipedia:
The Pequots were the dominant Native American tribe in the southeastern portion of Connecticut Colony, and they had long competed with the neighboring Mohegan and Narragansett tribes.[2]: 167 The European colonists established trade with all three tribes, exchanging European goods for wampum and furs. The Pequots eventually allied with the Dutch colonists, while the Mohegans and others allied with the New England colonists.
A trader named John Oldham was murdered and his trading ship looted by Pequots,[2]: 177 and retaliation raids ensued by Colonists and their Native American allies. On April 23, 1637, 200 Pequot warriors attacked the colonial village of Wethersfield killing 6 men and 3 women, all noncombatants. This was a major turning point in the Pequot war as it enraged the settlers that the warriors would kill civilians and led to increased support for the Pequot War among colonists.[3] According to Katherine Grandjean, the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635 damaged the corn and other crop harvests of that year, making food supplies scarce and creating competition for winter food supplies. This in turn increased the tensions between the Pequots and Colonists who were ill-prepared to face periods of famine.[4]