Northeast Coast campaign (1712) explained

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] 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]

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]

Notes and References

  1. Tod . Scott . Mi'kmaw Armed Resistance to British Expansion in Northern New England (1676–1761) . . 19 . 2016 . 1–18.
  2. Book: Williamson, William D.. William D. Williamson. The History of the State of Maine: From Its First Discovery, 1602, to the Separation, A. D. 1820, Inclusive. II. 1832. Hallowell, Maine. Glazier, Masters & Company. 45.
  3. Book: Clayton, W. Woodford. History of York County, Maine: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. 1880. Everts and Peck. Philadelphia. 9780832800375. 52-53.
  4. Book: Drake, Samuel Adams . The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars . New York . Charles Scribner's sons . 1897 .