Dummer's War

Dummer's War
Part of the American Indian Wars
Battle of Norridgewock (1724): Death of Father Sebastian Rale
Date 25 July 1722 – 15 December 1725 Location Northern New England and Nova Scotia Result Dummer's Treaty (preliminary 1725, final 1727)
Belligerents
New England Colonies Mohawk	Wabanaki Confederacy Abenaki Pequawket Mi'kmaq Maliseet
Commanders and leaders
William Dummer John Doucett Shadrach Walton Thomas Westbrook John Lovewell † Jeremiah Moulton	Gray Lock Sebastian Rale † Father Joseph Aubery Chief Paugus † Chief Mog † Chief Wowurna

The Dummer's War (1722–1725), also known as Father Rale's War, Lovewell's War, Greylock's War, the Three Years War, the 4th Anglo-Abenaki War or the Wabanaki-New England War of 1722–1725, was a series of battles between New England and the Wabanaki Confederacy (specifically the Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, and Abenaki), who were allied with New France. The eastern theatre of the war was fought primarily along the border between New England and Acadia in present-day Maine as well as in Nova Scotia; the western theatre was fought in northern Massachusetts and Vermont at the border between Canada (New France) and New England. (During this time Massachusetts included present-day Maine and Vermont.)

The root cause of the conflict on the Maine frontier was over the border between Acadia and New England, which New France defined as the Kennebec River in southern Maine. After the British Siege of Port Royal in 1710 and the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, mainland Nova Scotia (not including Cape Breton) came under British control, but both present-day New Brunswick and virtually all of present-day Maine remained contested territory between New England and New France. New France, to secure its claim to the region, established Catholic missions (churches) among the four largest native villages in the region: one on the Kennebec River (Norridgewock); one further north on the Penobscot River (Penobscot), one on the Saint John River (Medoctec). and one at Shubenacadie (Saint Anne's Mission). (Similarly, during Father Le Loutre's War, New France established three forts along the border of present-day New Brunswick to protect it from a British attack from Nova Scotia.)

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