Northeast Coast campaign (1723)

Northeast Coast campaign (1723)
Part of Father Rale's War
Date 19 April 1723 – 28 January 1724 Location Berwick, Maine to Mount Desert Island Result French and Wabanaki Confederacy victory
Belligerents
New England Colonies	French colonists  Abenaki
Commanders and leaders
Colonel Thomas Westbrook	Father Sébastien Rale
Strength
	unknown
Casualties and losses
20-30 killed or taken prisoner[1]	unknown

The Northeast Coast campaign (1723) occurred during Father Rale's War from April 19, 1723 – January 28, 1724. In response to the previous year, in which New England attacked the Wabanaki Confederacy at Norridgewock and Penobscot, the Wabanaki Confederacy retaliated by attacking the coast of present-day Maine that was below the Kennebec River, the border of Acadia. They attacked English settlements on the coast of present-day Maine between Berwick and Mount Desert Island. Casco (also known as Falmouth and Portland) was the principal settlement. The 1723 campaign was so successful along the Maine frontier that Dummer ordered its evacuation to the blockhouses in the spring of 1724.^[2]