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The Northeast Coast campaign involved the Wabanaki Confederacy raiding British villages along the former border of Acadia in present-day Maine during Queen Anne's War in the spring and summer of 1712.[1]
Historical context[]
After the Northeast Coast campaign (1703), in the spring of 1704, after the Raid on Deerfield in February, the Wabanaki again attacked Wells and York, Maine.[2] They raided Saco, Maine again in 1704 and 1705.[3][4]:167 They raided Winter Harbor (in present-day Biddeford near Biddeford Pool), two more times in 1707 and 1710.[3]
The raids on British villages was in retaliation to their capture of the capital of Acadia, Port Royal, which the British renamed Annapolis Royal.[4]:285
Campaign[]
Natives made raids on Kittery, Wells, Berwick, York, Spruce Creek, Portsmouth. The campaign also reached into New Hampshire and Massachusetts with native raids on Exeter, Oyster River, and Dover.[4]:286-289
References[]
- ↑ Scott, Tod (2016). "Mi'kmaw Armed Resistance to British Expansion in Northern New England (1676–1761)". pp. 1–18.
- ↑ Williamson, William D. (1832). The History of the State of Maine: From Its First Discovery, 1602, to the Separation, A. D. 1820, Inclusive. II. Hallowell, Maine: Glazier, Masters & Company. p. 45. https://archive.org/details/historyofstateof02will.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Clayton, W. Woodford (1880). History of York County, Maine: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Philadelphia: Everts and Peck. pp. 52-53. ISBN 9780832800375. https://books.google.com/books?id=-e8gAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA52.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Drake, Samuel Adams (1897). The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars. New York: Charles Scribner's sons. https://archive.org/stream/borderwarsnew00drakrich.
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