| Raid on Chignecto (1696) | |||||||
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| Part of King William's War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Mi'kmaq militia Acadian militia |
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Father Claude Trouve[1] | Benjamin Church, John Gorham[2] | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Unknown Mi’kmaq and village residents | 400 New England troops and native warriors, | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
The Raid on Chignecto occurred during King William's War when New England forces from Boston attacked the Isthmus of Chignecto, Acadia in present-day Nova Scotia. The raid was in retaliation for the French and Indian Siege of Pemaquid (1696) at present day Bristol, Maine. In the English Province of Massachusetts Bay. Colonel Benjamin Church was the leader of the New England force of 400 men. The raid lasted nine days, between September 20–29, 1696, and formed part of a larger expedition by Church against a number of other Acadian communities.
- ^ Baillargeon, Noël (1979) [1969]. "Trouvé, Claude". In Hayne, David (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. II (1701–1740) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
- ^ Grandfather of the John Gorham who would later rise to prominence during Father Le Loutre's War.Church, Church & Drake (1851), p. 219