Wabanaki Fall
American Colonial Power 1698-1713
Introduction
The colonial powers of England and France battled for control of the North American continent from the end of the 17th century until the 1750s. Ultimately both would lose, but not before dragging a number of native allies down with them.
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1700 - War continues to rage between the French and English in the New England frontier.
In 1703 English soldiers raid the house of St. Castin’s Wabanaki son, officially re-opening old wounds and a war concluded five years earlier by the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697, but one that had been unofficially raging on the New England frontier unabated. The raid is the official opening act of the next chapter of war between the two powers.
[1] Caughnawagas and other Wabanakis raid Deerfield, Mass. killing 50 settlers and taking over a hundred prisoners.
[2] Captain Benjamin Church arrives in Boston, insisting on retribution for the Deerfield raid.
[3] Church attacks French frontier settlements.
[4] Church pushes to attack Port Royal, but is talked back by his officers. They return to Boston.
[5] The English attack Port Royal in 1706, unsuccessfully. Port Royal falls to the English in 1710.
[16] 1711 - The English siege Quebec.
1713 - The French concede Hudson Bay and Acadia to the English with Treaty of Utrecht. The Wabanaki sue for peace by July. With the withdrawal of Wabanaki French allies from the territory, and the help of their Iroquois allies, English settlers move aggressively into Wabanaki lands.
[1] 1721 - The French Jesuit Sebastien Rale incites the Wabanaki to an uprising. They attack random settlements.
[2] 1723 - 230 men burn Passadumkeag. Rale escapes.
[3] Summer 1724 - The settler army destroys Norridgewock, killing Rale.
The Wabanaki sue for peace in 1725, submitting to England.
The Wabanaki Confederacy is finished as a regional power.
References
Utley, Robert M, and Wilcomb E Washburn. Indian Wars. Boston Mass., Houghton Mifflin, 2002.