Joint French and native forces attack the…
February 1704 CE
Joint French and native forces attack the town of Deerfield, Massachusetts, on February 29, 1704, during Queen Anne's War, in what becomes known as the 1704 Raid on Deerfield.
Under the command of Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville are forty-seven Canadiens and two hundred Abenaki, Kanienkehaka, and Wyandot as well as a few Pocumtuck.
They strike at dawn, razing Deerfield and killing fifty-six colonists, including twenty-two men, nine women, and twenty-five children.
Groups
Abenaki people (Amerind tribe)
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Mohawk people (Amerind tribe)
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Wyandot, or Wendat, or Huron people (Amerind tribe)
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Pocumtuck (Amerind tribe)
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New France (French Colony)
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France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of
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Massachusetts, Province of (English Crown Colony)
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England, (Stuart) Kingdom of
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