Enlightenment · North America · War

1695

Abenaki Raids on New England

1695

During King William's War, French-allied Abenaki warriors repeatedly raided the Maine and New Hampshire frontier, burning farmsteads and carrying captives to Quebec. The pattern of frontier warfare with taken prisoners, ransoms, and slow assimilation would define New England's northern border for the next seventy years, blurring the line between European imperial conflict and indigenous resistance.

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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.