Northeast Coast Campaign (1712)

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. [2] They raided Saco again in 1704 and 1705.[3] [4] 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 the British capture of the capital of Acadia, Port Royal, which the British renamed Annapolis Royal.[5]

Campaign

Natives made raids on Kittery, Wells, Berwick, York, Spruce Creek, Portsmouth. The campaign also reached into New Hampshire and Massasschusetts with native raids on Exeter, Oyster River, and Dover.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Tod Scott. Mi'kmaw Armed Resistance to British Expansion in Northern New England (1676-1781). Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society Journal. Vol. 19, 2016. pp. 1-18
  2. ↑ Williamson, p. 45
  3. 1 2 History of York County. 52-53
  4. ↑ Dec 20 raid on Saco
  5. ↑ Drake, p. 285
  6. ↑ Samuel Drake. The Border Wars of New England, pp. 286-289

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