Northeast Coast Campaign (1747)

Date	April – September 1747
Location	Berwick, Maine to St. Georges (Thomaston, Maine)
Result	French and Wabanaki Confederacy victory

Belligerents

New England

French colonists
Wabanaki Confederacy

Commanders and leaders

Commander Samuel Waldo (Falmouth)
Captain Jonathan Williamson

unknown

Strength

625

unknown

Casualties and losses

approximately 30 persons killed or captured

unknown

The Northeast Coast Campaign (1747) 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 1747. They attacked English settlements on the coast of present-day Maine between Berwick and St. Georges (Thomaston, Maine), within two months there were 11 raids - every town on the frontier had been attacked. Casco (also known as Falmouth and Portland) was the principal settlement.

After the two attacks on Annapolis Royal in 1744, Governor William Shirley put a bounty on the Passamaquoddy, Mi’kmaq and Maliseet on Oct 20. The following year, during the Campaign, on August 23, 1745, Shirley declared war against the rest of the Wabanaki Confederacy – the Penobscot and Kennebec tribes. In response to the New England expedition against Louisbourg which finished in June 1745, the Wabanaki retaliated by attacking the New England border. New England braced itself for such an attack by appointing a provisional force of 450 to defend the frontier. After the attacks began they increased the number of soldiers by 175 men. Massachusetts established forts along the border with Acadia: Fort George at Brunswick (1715),St. George's Fort at Thomaston (1720), and Fort Richmond (1721) at Richmond.Fort Frederick was established at Pemaquid (Bristol, Maine).

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