The Raid on Deerfield, also known as the Deerfield Massacre, occurred during Queen Anne's War on February 29, 1704, when French and Native American raiders...
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including the Raid on Deerfield, the town is a center of heritage tourism in the Pioneer Valley. Deerfield has numerous schools, including Deerfield Academy...
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North America for leading the raid on Deerfield, in western Province of Massachusetts Bay, against English settlers on 29 February 1704 during Queen Anne's...
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John Williams (New England minister) (category People from Deerfield, Massachusetts)
was the noted pastor of Deerfield from 1688 to his death. He and most of his family were taken captive in the Raid on Deerfield in 1704 during Queen Anne's...
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Battle of Bloody Brook (category Deerfield, Massachusetts)
arrived with Mosely a couple of days later. One day after the initial raid on Deerfield, a Pocumtuc and Nashaway force under Monoco attacked Northfield, the...
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Queen Anne's War (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
Maine. They executed raids in the Province of Massachusetts Bay (including Maine), most famously the Raid on Deerfield in 1704 and one on Groton in 1707, in...
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who wrote a captivity narrative after being captured in the 1704 Raid on Deerfield Neal Salisbury points out in his introduction to Rowlandson's work...
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Mount Desert Island (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
mountains on his voyage to the New World. During Queen Anne's War, in response to the French raid on Deerfield, New Englander Benjamin Church raided the Acadian...
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Newbury (town), Vermont (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
region. In 1704 the Pennacook at Cowass kept several captives from the Deerfield Raid in the village, including Stephen Williams who was kept with Sachem...
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choose an easier target. The raid was more costly to the French than previous frontier raids like that in 1704 on Deerfield, Massachusetts because the province...
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Mi'kmaq militia raids (and the Raid on Deerfield), Major Benjamin Church went on his fifth and final expedition to Acadia. He raided present-day Castine...
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Historic Deerfield is a museum dedicated to the heritage and preservation of Deerfield, Massachusetts, and history of the Connecticut River Valley. Its...
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in the 1704 Deerfield Raid. The Deerfield attack was part of the decade-long Queen Anne's War (the 1702-1713 War of Spanish Succession on the Continent)...
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Falmouth, Nova Scotia (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
families on well established farms utilizing productive dyked fields. During Queen Anne's War, in response to the French Raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts...
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Acadia (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
They made numerous raids on New England settlements along the border in the Northeast Coast Campaign and the famous Raid on Deerfield. In retaliation, Major...
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Isthmus of Chignecto (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
Northeast Coast Campaign (1703) and the Raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts. They killed many English colonists at Deerfield and took more than 100 captive. The...
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the colonies. Province of Carolina attacks St. Augustine. 1704 – Raid on Deerfield. The Province of Carolina allows the arming of slaves during time...
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Military history of Vermont (section Royalton Raid)
Anne's War raiding parties crossed the territory to attack targets in New England and New France. These notably included the 1704 Raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts...
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Northeast Coast campaign (1703) (category Military raids)
captured 24 people in three raids on three villages, one of which was Wells.) In response to these events and the Raid on Deerfield, the governors of the northern...
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Port-Royal (Acadia) (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
and pirates such as Captain Crapo. In 1704, in retaliation for the Raid on Deerfield, Major Benjamin Church created a blockade of Port-Royal. Church was...
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February 29 (redirect from Born on February 29)
– In Queen Anne's War, French forces and Native Americans stage a raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony, killing 56 villagers and taking more than...
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Pioneer Valley (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
"carried" them away on a months-long trek to Quebec. Many died along the way or were killed when they could not keep up. Deerfield and other communities...
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for a French and Indian raid against the Massachusetts frontier community of Deerfield earlier that year. Departing Boston on 25 May 1704 with 500 provincial...
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Memorial Hall Museum (category Deerfield, Massachusetts)
Williams, who had been taken captive to Canada following the 1704 Raid on Deerfield. In 1870, George Sheldon, preservationist and antiquarian who was...
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Anne's War 1702 Battle of Flint River 1703 Battle of Falmouth 1704 Raid on Deerfield 1703–1719 Noncomformists Disturbances in Jamaica, New York 1703 Political...
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Military history of Canada (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
Creek in 1711. The raid on Grand Pré, launched by New England forces, was in retaliation for a French-First Nations raid on Deerfield in the British Province...
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where the end goal is to capture territory and advance. Raids are a quick attack, relying heavily on the element of surprise to achieve their objective. After...
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John Stebbins, in Deerfield, Massachusetts in 1704. He was still there when the French and Indians made the 1704 Raid on Deerfield. He was captured and...
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Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
the raids of Queen Anne's War, which was waged by colonists in the English and French areas of North America. He was present at the Raid on Deerfield in...
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Castine, Maine (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
Raid on Deerfield in February 1704, New England Colonel Benjamin Church raided Saint-Castin's settlement (then known as Penobscot) before moving on to...
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