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Uncas

c. 1588–c. 1683 · 17th century

Uncas was a sachem of the Mohegan in Connecticut. A Pequot noble by birth, he broke away from the Pequot leadership in the 1630s and allied with the English, fighting beside them in the Pequot War of 1637. Supported by the colonists, he made the Mohegan the leading native power of the region and in 1643 captured and had killed his Narragansett rival Miantonomoh.

Uncas
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Pequot Nation

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