Raid on York (1692)
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The Raid on York took place on 24 January 1692 during King William's War, when Chief Madockawando and Father Louis-Pierre Thury led 200-300 natives into the town of York, killing about 100 of the Engl
Memorial plaque in York, ME
King William's War
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King William's War was the North American theater of the Nine Years' War. It was the first of six colonial wars fought between New France and New England along with their respective Native allies befo
Louis de Buade de Frontenac meeting with an English envoy prior to the Battle of Quebec
Major Richard Waldron shortly before his death during the Abenaki raid on Dover
William Phips, the Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, led an assault on Port Royal.
In 1696, a military campaign saw the sacking of English settlements on the Avalon Peninsula.