Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia)
1704 - Attacked

June 20: Benjamin Church (1639-1718), with 700 men, three warships and fourteen transports, burned Les Mines (Grand Pre), took Cobequid (Truro) and Piziquid (Pigiguit), and wasted Beaubassin, Acadia. They laid siege to Port Royal but they refused to surrender, and the English (speaking people) departed.

www.telusplanet.net/ public/ dgarneau/ french26.htm

February 29, 1704 - Queen Anne's War - Deerfield Massacre - Major Jean-Baptiste de Rouville and his four brothers attack and burn an English settlement at Salmon Falls in the Connecticut River valley with a band of 250 French and Abenaki Indians, killing 43 civilians and capturing over 100; the attack was in part a religious crusade to retrieve a French church bell acquired by the Indians of New France that had been captured by a privateer, taken to Salem and sold to the people of Deerfield, who apparently were unaware of its origins; the captive English English settlers were forced to march 370 km north to Canada. Colonel Church will later attack Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, in retaliation for this guerrilla warfare; the Deerfield church bell is eventually taken to the Saut St-Louis (Caughnawaga) mission on the St. Lawrence, across from Lachine, where it still hangs in the Iroquois chapel.

canadachannel.ca/ todayincanadianhistory/ index.php/ February_29



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