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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 under the command of Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville attacked the English colonial settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts Bay, just before dawn. They burned parts of the town and killed 47 ...
Feb 28, 2024 · The Deerfield Massacre was a leap year, February 29, 1704, attack on a remote Franklin County colonial settlement by French and Native American raiders. Forty-seven colonists were killed and houses were burned down, and more than 100 colonists were captured.
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Dec 8, 2013 · An illustration of the raid on Deerfield, published around 1900. The Deerfield Raid. On the night of Feb. 28, 1704, a band of Abenaki and Mohawk Indians attacked Deerfield. They killed 39 people, including small children. They plundered possessions, set houses on fire and slaughtered cows, pigs and sheep.
Lancaster and Haverhill, Massachusetts; Salmon Falls and Oyster River, New Hampshire; York and Wells, Maine: Each suffered days of wholesale attack. And Deerfield, Massachusetts—above all, Deerfield—scene of the region’s single, most notorious “massacre.”
views 2,518,557 updated. DEERFIELD MASSACRE. In the early morning of 29 February 1704, a force of 50 French soldiers and 200 Indian allies from Canada, under the command of Major Hertel de Rouville, climbed up high snow drifts over the unguarded stockade at Deerfield, Massachusetts, one of New England 's most northwestern settlements.
Feb 28, 2024 · The Deerfield Massacre was a leap year, February 29, 1704, attack on a remote Franklin County colonial settlement by French and Native American raiders. Forty-seven colonists were killed and...
Raid On Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704. In the pre-dawn hours of February 29, 1704, a force of about 300 French and Native allies launched a daring raid on the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, situated in the Pocumtuck homeland. 112 Deerfield men, women, and children were captured and taken on a 300-mile forced march to ...
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