West Jeddore is a

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community of the

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in the Canadian province of

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History

Battle at Winnepang (Jeddore Harbour)

On July 22, 1722, immediately after the declaration of

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, Governor

Richard Philipps General Richard Philipps (1661 – 14 October 1750) was said to have been in the employ of William III as a young man and for his service gained the rank of captain in the British army. He served at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 and promoted ...

commissioned Capt. John Elliot and Capt. John Robinson in two sloops with regiments to protect the fishery at

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and retrieve the New England prisoners. There was a

Mi'kmaq The Mi'kmaq (also ''Mi'gmaq'', ''Lnu'', ''Miꞌkmaw'' or ''Miꞌgmaw''; ; ) are a First Nations people of the Northeastern Woodlands, indigenous to the areas of Canada's Atlantic Provinces and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec as well as the nort ...

camping place at near-by West Jeddore. There were thirty-nine natives at Winnepang (present-day Jeddore Harbour) harbouring prisoners in seven vessels. Capt. Elliot and Bradstreet arrived in the harbour and attacked the natives in a two-hour naval battle. A boarding party led by Bradstreet overwhelmed the natives with hand grenades and disciplined fire. Capt. Elliot and several of his men were badly wounded. Five of the men were killed. As the Mi'kmaq tried to swim ashore to escape, the New Englanders opened fire on them. Thirty-five natives were killed. The New Englanders managed to rescue fifteen prisoners from the vessels, while discovering that nine had been killed. Only five native bodies were recovered from the battle. The New Englanders decapitated the corpses and set the severed heads on spikes surrounding Canso's new fort.
• , reports that only five natives survived and that all were wounded. He reports that two Mi'maq heads were place on spikes at Canso.

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Battle at Winnepang (Jeddore Harbour)

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