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Raid on Salmon Falls

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Date
  
27 March 1690

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34 killed, 54 captured

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Result
  
Acadian and Wabanaki Confederacy victory

Location
  
Berwick, Maine, United States

Similar
  
Raid on Chignecto, Siege of Fort Nashwaak, Hudson Bay expedition, Raid on Oyster River, King William's War

The Raid on Salmon Falls (March 27, 1690) involved Joseph-François Hertel de la Fresnière (and his son Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville) leading his troops as well as the Wabanaki Confederacy (Mi'kmaq and Maliseet from Fort Meductic) in New Brunswick to capture and destroy an English settlement of Salmon Falls (present-day Berwick, Maine) during King William's War.

Raid

The village was destroyed, and most of its residents were killed or taken prisoner for transport back to Canada. They killed thirty-four men and carried away captive fifty-four persons, mostly women and children, and plundered and burnt the houses and mills. Militia mustered from Portsmouth and gave chase, but were driven off in a skirmish later that day. Hertel then continued to raid present-day Portland, Maine.

The attackers' original intent was to target the home of Edward Tyng, father of Edward Tyng, at Fort Loyal but changed plans and attacked Salmon Falls.

References

Raid on Salmon Falls Wikipedia


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