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Iberville captures Saint John's in the Avalon …

Years: 1697 - 1697
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Iberville captures Saint John's in the Avalon Peninsula Campaign and ruins most of the English fishing villages.

He is responsible for the destruction of thirty-six settlements during four months of raids.

The Newfoundland campaign is one of the cruelest and most destructive of Iberville's career.

These raids have devastated the English settlements of Newfoundland, every one of which has been destroyed and the English colony depopulated, except for Bonavista, which D'Iberville had not reached, and the island holdout at Carbonear.

An estimated eighty percent of the families have been killed, deserted the village, have been taken prisoner or have been deported.

Iberville will never return to Newfoundland.

 

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