Excerpt from Addresses Delivered Before the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York and Year Book for 1906-1907 The Connecticut Colonists were bold men that they thus determined alone, without waiting for their fellows, to attack the Pequots on their own ground. Even if we take Bancroft's estimate as correct, that the tribe could muster about 700 warriors, the odds were heavy against them, for they could send on the expedition only ninety men, and though the muskets Of the English were far more powerful weapons than the bows and arrows of the Indians, yet they learned that the Pequots had sixteen guns, and their bows and arrows were not to be despised. Gardiner, in his narrative, says that the arrow which had killed one of his men, had struck on the right side, the head sticking fast half through a rib on the left side, which I took out and cleaned it, and presumed to send it to the Bay, because they had said that the arrows of the Indians were of no force. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.