Northeast Coast Campaign (1688)
Northeast Coast campaign may refer to: *Northeast Coast campaign (1675) *Northeast Coast campaign (1676) *Northeast Coast campaign (1677) * Northeast Coast campaign (1703) *Northeast Coast campaign (1712) * Northeast Coast campaign (1723) * Northeast Coast campaign (1724) * Northeast Coast campaign (1745) * Northeast Coast campaign (1746) * Northeast Coast campaign (1747) * Northeast Coast campaign (1750) * Northeast Coast campaign (1755) *Northeast Coast campaign (1756) {{disambiguation ...
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Northeast Coast Campaign (1675)
The Northeast Coast campaign of 1675 was conducted during the First Abenaki War (the northern theatre of King Philip's War) and involved the Wabanaki Confederacy raiding colonial American settlements along the New England Colonies/Acadia border in present-day Maine. Allied with French colonists in New France, they killed eighty colonists and burned many farms, blunting the tide of colonial British expansion in the north. Settlers deserted community after community, leaving only the settlements south of the Saco River to maintain an English presence in the region. Historian Georges Cerbelaud Salagnac writes, that Castine and the Abenaki “displayed consummate skill at it, holding in check at every point, from the Penobscot River to Salmon Falls, N.H., and even beyond, 700 regular troops, and even inflicting humiliating defeats upon them.” These raids were part of continuing warfare as the French and British fought for control in North America into the 18th century, as part of the ...
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