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, 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.[5]
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.[6]
References
- Scott, Tod (2016). "Mi'kmaw Armed Resistance to British Expansion in Northern New England (1676–1761)". Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society. 19: 1–18.
- Williamson, p. 45
- Clayton (1880), pp. 52-53.
- Drake (1897), p. 167.
- Drake (1897), p. 285.
- Drake (1897), p. 167.
- Texts
- Clayton, W. Woodford (1880). History of York County, Maine: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Philadelphia: Everts and Peck.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)