Northeast Coast campaign (1703)

Northeast Coast campaign (1703)
	Part of Queen Anne's War
Date	10 August – 6 October 1703
Location	present-day coastal Maine, from Casco Bay south
Result	French and Indian victory
Belligerents
New England	French colonists; Abenaki
Commanders and leaders
Cyprian Southack; John March (wounded); Captain John Larrabee ; Captain Summersby (Portsmouth); Captain Wadley (Wells); Captain Davis; Captain Richard Hunnewell (Black Point) † ; Lt. Wyat (Black Point)	Alexandre Leneuf de La Vallière de Beaubassin; Father Sebastian Rale; Moxus; Wanongonet; Escumbuit; Sampson
Strength
	500 Indians; unknown marines
Casualties and losses
reports vary; killed captured more than 300	approximately 15 killed; 15 captured

The Northeast Coast campaign (also known as the Six Terrible Days)^[3] (10 August – 6 October 1703) was the first major campaign by the French of Queen Anne's War in New England. Alexandre Leneuf de La Vallière de Beaubassin^[4] led 500 troops made up of French colonial forces and the Wabanaki Confederacy of Acadia (200 Mi'kmaq^[5] and others from Norridgewock).^[6]^[a] They attacked English settlements on the coast of present-day Maine between Wells and Casco Bay (now the Portland, Maine area), burning more than 15 leagues of New England country and killing or capturing more than 150 people.^[7]^[4]^[b] The English colonists protected some of their settlements, but a number of others were destroyed and abandoned. Historian Samuel Drake reported that, "Maine had nearly received her death-blow" as a result of the campaign.^[3]

^ ^a ^b "Documents relative to the colonial history of the state of New York". Albany, N.Y. : Weed, Parsons and Co. September 14, 1853 – via Internet Archive.
^ "Collections". Concord [etc.] September 14, 1824 – via Internet Archive.
^ ^a ^b Drake, Samuel Adams (September 14, 1897). "The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars". New York : C. Scribner's sons – via Internet Archive.
^ ^a ^b Comeau, J.-Roger (1979) [1969]. "Leneuf de La Vallière de Beaubassin, Alexandre". In Hayne, David (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. II (1701–1740) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. Retrieved 2012-11-22.
^ Bruce Bourque. "Ethnicity on the Maritime Peninsula, 1600-1759". Ethnohistory. Vol. 36. No. 3. 1989. p. 270
^ Scott, Tod (2016). "Mi'kmaw Armed Resistance to British Expansion in Northern New England (1676–1761)". Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society. 19: 1–18.
^ Penallow. History of Wars with New England. 1725, p. 18-22
• Samuel Niles, “History of the Indian and French wars,” (1760) reprinted in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 3d ser., VI (1837), 248–50
• Sylvester, Indian wars, III, 1910. 29–45.
^ Francis Parkman, Half-Century of Conflict: France and England in North America. Part Six. Vol 1. p. 47)
• Williamson (1832), p. 44

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[auto1-1] "Documents relative to the colonial history of the state of New York". Albany, N.Y. : Weed, Parsons and Co. September 14, 1853 – via Internet Archive.

[2] "Collections". Concord [etc.] September 14, 1824 – via Internet Archive.

[auto-3] Drake, Samuel Adams (September 14, 1897). "The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars". New York : C. Scribner's sons – via Internet Archive.

[DCB_Beaubassin-4] Comeau, J.-Roger (1979) [1969]. "Leneuf de La Vallière de Beaubassin, Alexandre". In Hayne, David (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. II (1701–1740) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. Retrieved 2012-11-22.

[5] Bruce Bourque. "Ethnicity on the Maritime Peninsula, 1600-1759". Ethnohistory. Vol. 36. No. 3. 1989. p. 270

[6] Scott, Tod (2016). "Mi'kmaw Armed Resistance to British Expansion in Northern New England (1676–1761)". Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society. 19: 1–18.

[8] Penallow. History of Wars with New England. 1725, p. 18-22
• Samuel Niles, “History of the Indian and French wars,” (1760) reprinted in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 3d ser., VI (1837), 248–50
• Sylvester, Indian wars, III, 1910. 29–45.

[9] Francis Parkman, Half-Century of Conflict: France and England in North America. Part Six. Vol 1. p. 47)
• Williamson (1832), p. 44

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