Raid on Grand Pré
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The Raid on Grand Pré was the major action of a raiding expedition conducted by the New England militia Colonel Benjamin Church against French Acadia in June 1704, during Queen Anne's War. The expedit
Colonel Benjamin Church, the "Father of American ranging"
Grand Pré was raided in retaliation for the Raid on Deerfield, depicted here
Governor of Massachusetts Joseph Dudley
Queen Anne's War
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Queen Anne's War was the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought in North America involving the colonial empires of Great Britain, France, and Spain. In the United States, it is regarded a
Raid on Grand Pré
…was the major action of a raiding expedition conducted by the New England militia Colonel Benjamin Church against French Acadia in June 1704, during Queen Anne's War. The expedition was allegedly in retaliation for a French and Indian raid against the Massachusetts frontier community of Deerfield earlier that year…
Fortifications of Port Royal, Acadia, (modern-day Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia) 1702.
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville sought to establish a relationship with native people in the Mississippi watershed as a result of the last war with England.
Hendrick Tejonihokarawa, a Mohawk chief, was successful in gaining support from Anne, Queen of Great Britain, to launch an expedition to take Quebec City.