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class="status"> New England victory</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Belligerents</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> <a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_Mi%E2%80%99kmaq_People" class="mw-redirect" title="Military history of the Mi’kmaq People">Mi'kmaq militia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_Acadians" title="Military history of the Acadians">Acadian militia</a></td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:New_England_combo_flag.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt=""The Pine Tree flag of New England"" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/New_England_combo_flag.svg/23px-New_England_combo_flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" 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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lachine_massacre" title="Lachine massacre">Lachine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schenectady_massacre" title="Schenectady massacre">Schenectady</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Quebec_(1690)" title="Battle of Quebec (1690)">Quebec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_La_Prairie" title="Battle of La Prairie">La Prairie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohawk_Valley_raid" title="Mohawk Valley raid">Mohawk Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Wilton_(New_York)" title="Battle of Wilton (New York)">Wilton</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>New England, Acadia and Newfoundland</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Dover" title="Raid on Dover">Dover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Pemaquid_(1689)" title="Siege of Pemaquid (1689)">1st Pemaquid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Salmon_Falls" title="Raid on Salmon Falls">Salmon Falls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Port_Royal_(1690)" title="Battle of Port Royal (1690)">Port Royal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Falmouth_(1690)" title="Battle of Falmouth (1690)">Falmouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Chedabucto" title="Battle of Chedabucto">Chedabucto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naval_battle_off_St._John_(1691)" title="Naval battle off St. John (1691)">1st St. John</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raid_on_York_(1692)" title="Raid on York (1692)">York</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Wells_(1692)" title="Raid on Wells (1692)">Wells</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Placentia_(1692)" title="Battle of Placentia (1692)">Placentia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Oyster_River" title="Raid on Oyster River">Oyster River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Groton" title="Raid on Groton">Groton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naval_battle_off_St._John_(1696)" title="Naval battle off St. John (1696)">2nd St. John</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Pemaquid_(1696)" title="Siege of Pemaquid (1696)">2nd Pemaquid</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink 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The raid was in retaliation for the French and Indian <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Pemaquid_(1696)" title="Siege of Pemaquid (1696)">Siege of Pemaquid (1696)</a> at present day <a href="/wiki/Bristol,_Maine" title="Bristol, Maine">Bristol, Maine</a>. In the English <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Massachusetts_Bay" title="Province of Massachusetts Bay">Province of Massachusetts Bay</a>. Colonel <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Church_(ranger)" title="Benjamin Church (ranger)">Benjamin Church</a> 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. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historical_context">Historical context</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Raid_on_Chignecto_(1696)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Historical context"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During <a href="/wiki/King_William%27s_War" title="King William's War">King William's War</a> – the first of the four <a href="/wiki/French_and_Indian_Wars" title="French and Indian Wars">French and Indian Wars</a> – French and Natives were victorious in the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Pemaquid_(1696)" title="Siege of Pemaquid (1696)">Siege of Pemaquid (1696)</a> (present day <a href="/wiki/Bristol,_Maine" title="Bristol, Maine">Bristol, Maine</a>) earlier that year. In the Siege of Pemaquid, the French and natives had destroyed <a href="/wiki/Fort_William_Henry_(Pemaquid_Beach,_Maine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort William Henry (Pemaquid Beach, Maine)">Fort William Henry</a>, which the English colonial militia leader <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Church_(ranger)" title="Benjamin Church (ranger)">Benjamin Church</a> himself assisted in erecting.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Acadians at Chignecto posted a proclamation heralding the success of French arms on their church door. In response to the defeat, the following month Benjamin Church led a devastating raid on the Isthmus of Chignecto at <a href="/wiki/Beaubassin" title="Beaubassin">Beaubassin</a> in 1696.<sup id="cite_ref-Reid1994_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reid1994-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_raid">The raid</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Raid_on_Chignecto_(1696)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The raid"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Church and four hundred men (50 to 150 of whom were Indians, likely Iroquois) arrived offshore of Beaubassin on September 20. When they came ashore, the Acadians and Mi'kmaq opened fire on them. Church lost a lieutenant and several of his men.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChurchChurchDrake1851228_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChurchChurchDrake1851228-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They managed to get ashore and surprise the Acadians. Many fled while one confronted Church with papers showing they had signed an oath of allegiance in 1690 to the English king. Church was unconvinced, especially after he discovered the proclamation heralding the French <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Pemaquid_(1696)" title="Siege of Pemaquid (1696)">success at Pemaquid</a> posted on the church door. He burned a number of buildings, killed inhabitants, looted their household goods, and slaughtered their livestock. Governor Villebon reported that "the English stayed at Beaubassin nine whole days without drawing any supplies from their vessels, and even those settlers to whom they had shown a pretence of mercy were left with empty houses and barns and nothing else except the clothes on their backs."<sup id="cite_ref-Reid1994_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reid1994-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Aftermath">Aftermath</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Raid_on_Chignecto_(1696)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Aftermath"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1246091330">.mw-parser-output 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style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Salmon_Falls" title="Raid on Salmon Falls"> Raid on Salmon Falls</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">1690</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a class="mw-selflink selflink"> Raid on Chignecto</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">1696</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Avalon_Peninsula_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Avalon Peninsula Campaign"> Avalon Peninsula Campaign</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">1696–97</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Northeast_Coast_Campaign_(1703)" class="mw-redirect" title="Northeast Coast Campaign (1703)"> Northeast Coast Campaign</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">1703</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Grand_Pr%C3%A9" title="Raid on Grand Pré">Raid on Grand Pré</a></td><td 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Winnepang">Battle of Winnepang</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">1722</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Annapolis_Royal#Blockade_of_Annapolis_Royal_(1722)" title="Annapolis Royal"> Blockade of Annapolis Royal</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">1722</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Canso" title="Raid on Canso">Raid on Canso</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">1744</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Annapolis_Royal_(1744)" title="Siege of Annapolis Royal (1744)"> Siege of Annapolis Royal</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">1744</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;">Siege of Port Toulouse</td><td style="text-align:right;">1745</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Louisbourg_(1745)" title="Siege of Louisbourg (1745)">Siege of Louisbourg</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">1745</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Naval_battle_off_Tatamagouche" title="Naval battle off Tatamagouche">Naval battle off Tatamagouche</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">1745</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Battle_at_Port-la-Joye" title="Battle at Port-la-Joye">‪Battle at Port-la-Joye</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">1746</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Grand_Pr%C3%A9" title="Battle of Grand Pré">Battle of Grand Pré</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">1747</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Dartmouth_(1749)" title="Raid on Dartmouth (1749)"> Raid on Dartmouth </a></td><td style="text-align:right;">1749</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Grand_Pre" class="mw-redirect" title="Siege of Grand Pre">Siege of Grand Pre</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">1749</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Battle_at_St._Croix" title="Battle at St. Croix">‪Battle at St. Croix</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">1750</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Battle_at_Chignecto" title="Battle at Chignecto">Battle at Chignecto</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">1750</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Dartmouth_(1751)" title="Raid on Dartmouth (1751)">Raid on Dartmouth</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">1751</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Attack_at_Mocodome" title="Attack at Mocodome">Attack at Mocodome</a></td><td style="text-align:right;"><span class="nowrap">1753</span></td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Beaus%C3%A9jour" title="Battle of Fort Beauséjour">Battle of Fort Beauséjour</a></td><td style="text-align:right;"><span class="nowrap">1755</span></td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Petitcodiac" title="Battle of Petitcodiac">Battle of Petitcodiac</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">1755</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bloody_Creek_(1757)" title="Battle of Bloody Creek (1757)"> Battle of Bloody Creek</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">1757</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Louisbourg_(1758)" title="Siege of Louisbourg (1758)"> Siege of Louisbourg</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">1758</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Lunenburg_Campaign_(1758)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lunenburg Campaign (1758)"> Lunenburg Campaign</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">1758</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Restigouche" title="Battle of Restigouche">Battle of Restigouche</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">1760</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Halifax_Treaties" class="mw-redirect" title="Halifax Treaties">Halifax Treaties</a></td><td style="text-align:right;">1761</td></tr></tbody></table></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background-color: #eee"> Other</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Portsmouth_(1713)" title="Treaty of Portsmouth (1713)">Treaty of Portsmouth (1713)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_1752" title="Treaty of 1752">Treaty of 1752</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Watertown" title="Treaty of Watertown">Treaty of Watertown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Captivity_narrative#Nova_Scotia_and_Acadia" 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mouth of the Saint John River. Church captured two Frenchmen here and learned from them of cannons buried nearby; these he unearthed and then proceeded towards Boston. At Passamaquoddy, Church's force was met by Colonel John Hathorn who took command of the entire force and proceeded to the Saint John River.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They moved up the river to lay <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Nashwaak_(1696)" class="mw-redirect" title="Siege of Fort Nashwaak (1696)">siege to the capital of Acadia Fort St. Joseph</a> (Nashwaak) (present-day <a href="/wiki/Fredericton,_New_Brunswick" class="mw-redirect" title="Fredericton, New Brunswick">Fredericton, New Brunswick</a>). The siege failed. </p><p>Church threatened the Chignecto Acadians before leaving that he would return if more New Englanders suffered. He did return to raid Chignecto again during <a href="/wiki/Queen_Anne%27s_War" title="Queen Anne's War">Queen Anne's War</a> in a campaign against Acadia that also included the <a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Grand_Pre" class="mw-redirect" title="Raid on Grand Pre">Raid on Grand Pre</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Raid_on_Chignecto_(1696)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_Nova_Scotia" title="Military history of Nova Scotia">Military history of Nova Scotia</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Raid_on_Chignecto_(1696)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Endnotes</dt></dl> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFBaillargeon1979" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol">Baillargeon, Noël (1979) [1969]. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/trouve_claude_2E.html">"Trouvé, Claude"</a>. In Hayne, David (ed.). <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_Canadian_Biography" title="Dictionary of Canadian Biography">Dictionary of Canadian Biography</a></i>. Vol. II (1701–1740) (online ed.). <a href="/wiki/University_of_Toronto_Press" title="University of Toronto Press">University of Toronto Press</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Trouv%C3%A9%2C+Claude&rft.btitle=Dictionary+of+Canadian+Biography&rft.edition=online&rft.pub=University+of+Toronto+Press&rft.date=1979&rft.aulast=Baillargeon&rft.aufirst=No%C3%ABl&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biographi.ca%2Fen%2Fbio%2Ftrouve_claude_2E.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARaid+on+Chignecto+%281696%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Grandfather of the John Gorham who would later rise to prominence during <a href="/wiki/Father_Le_Loutre%27s_War" title="Father Le Loutre's War">Father Le Loutre's War</a>.<a href="#CITEREFChurchChurchDrake1851">Church, Church & Drake (1851)</a>, p. 219</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDrake1897" class="citation book cs1">Drake, Samuel Adams (1897). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/borderwarsnew00drakrich/page/85"><i>The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars</i></a>. 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Reid">Reid, John G.</a> (1994). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=P2spDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA83">"1686–1720: Imperial Intrusions"</a>. In Phillip Buckner; John G. Reid (eds.). <i>The Atlantic Region to Confederation: A History</i>. University of Toronto Press. p. 83. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4875-1676-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4875-1676-5"><bdi>978-1-4875-1676-5</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt15jjfrm">j.ctt15jjfrm</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=1686%E2%80%931720%3A+Imperial+Intrusions&rft.btitle=The+Atlantic+Region+to+Confederation%3A+A+History&rft.pages=83&rft.pub=University+of+Toronto+Press&rft.date=1994&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2Fj.ctt15jjfrm%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.isbn=978-1-4875-1676-5&rft.aulast=Reid&rft.aufirst=John+G.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DP2spDwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA83&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARaid+on+Chignecto+%281696%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEChurchChurchDrake1851228-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChurchChurchDrake1851228_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFChurchChurchDrake1851">Church, Church & Drake (1851)</a>, p. 228.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWebster1979" class="citation book cs1">Webster, John Clarence (1979). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=7iLEtQEACAAJ&pg=PP1"><i>Acadia at the End of the Seventeenth Century: Letters, Journals and Memoirs of Joseph Robineau de Villebon, Commandant in Acadia, 1690-1700, and Other Contemporary Documents</i></a>. 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