Northeast Coast campaign (1746)

For other uses, see Northeast Coast campaign.
Northeast Coast campaign (1746)
Part of King George's War

Commander Samuel Waldo
DateApril – September 1746
Location
Berwick, Maine to St. Georges (Thomaston, Maine)
Result French and Wabanaki Confederacy victory
Belligerents
"The Pine Tree flag of New England" New England  French colonists
 Wabanaki Confederacy
Commanders and leaders
Commander Samuel Waldo (Falmouth)[1]
Captain Jonathan Williamson		 Unknown
Strength
625 Unknown
Casualties and losses
Approximately 30 persons killed or captured Unknown

The Northeast Coast campaign of 1746 was conducted by the Wabanaki Confederacy of Acadia against the New England settlements along the coast of present-day Maine below the Kennebec River, the former border of Acadia. During King George's War from July until September 1746,[2] they attacked English settlements on the coast of present-day Maine between Berwick and St. Georges (Thomaston, Maine). Within two months there were 9 raids - every town on the frontier had been attacked.[3] Casco (also known as Falmouth and Portland) was the principal settlement.

  1. ^ Folsom, p. 242
  2. ^ Scott, Tod (2016). "Mi'kmaw Armed Resistance to British Expansion in Northern New England (1676–1761)". Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society. 19: 1–18.
  3. ^ Williamson (1832), p. 240.