Battle of Bloody Creek (1711)

Battle of Bloody Creek
Part of Queen Anne's War
Cairn erected in 1932 to commemorate the battle
Date 10/21 June 1711 Location modern-day Carleton Corner, Nova Scotia Result Wabanaki Confederacy victory
Belligerents
Wabanaki Confederacy	New England
Commanders and leaders
L'Aymalle	David Pigeon
Strength
50–150 Indian warriors[1]	70 regulars[2]
Casualties and losses
unknown	16 killed 54 captured[3]

The Battle of Bloody Creek was a military engagement which was fought on 10/21 June 1711^[a] during Queen Anne's War. A Wabanaki Confederacy force of 50–150 warriors successfully ambushed 70 provincial troops of the British New England Colonies at a place that became known as Bloody Creek after the battles fought there. The creek empties into the Annapolis River at modern-day Carleton Corner, Nova Scotia, and was also the location of a battle in 1757.

The battle was part of an orchestrated attempt by the leaders of New France to weaken the British hold on Annapolis Royal. The British had only captured the fort the previous year and they only had a very tenuous control of the area. The battle, in which the entire New England force was captured or killed, emboldened the French and their Indian allies to blockade Annapolis Royal.^[4] Without heavy weapons, the force was unable to effectively attack the fort, and abandoned the siege when British reinforcements arrived by sea.

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