Raid on Salmon Falls

Raid on Salmon Falls
Part of King William's War
Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville
Date March 27, 1690 Location Salmon Falls (present-day Berwick, Maine) Result Acadian and Wabanaki Confederacy victory
Belligerents
Acadia Abenaki, Mi'kmaq and Maliseet	New England
Commanders and leaders
Joseph-François Hertel de la Fresnière Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville
Strength
unknown	unknown
Casualties and losses
unknown	34 killed, 54 captured

The Raid on Salmon Falls (March 27, 1690) involved Joseph-François Hertel de la Fresnière (and his son Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville^[1]) leading his troops as well as the Wabanaki Confederacy (Mi'kmaq and Maliseet from Fort Meductic) in New Brunswick to capture and destroy an English settlement of Salmon Falls (present-day Berwick, Maine) during King William's War.

Raid

The village was destroyed, and most of its residents were killed or taken prisoner for transport back to Canada. They killed thirty-four men and carried away captive fifty-four persons, mostly women and children, and plundered and burnt the houses and mills. Militia mustered from Portsmouth and gave chase, but were driven off in a skirmish later that day. Hertel then continued to raid present-day Portland, Maine.

The attackers' original intent was to target the home of Edward Tyng, father of Edward Tyng, at Fort Loyal but changed plans and attacked Salmon Falls.^[2]

See also

• Military history of the Mi’kmaq Warriors

References

1. "Biography – HERTEL DE ROUVILLE, JEAN-BAPTISTE – Volume II (1701-1740) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". biographi.ca. Retrieved 2014-09-13.
2. "Jewett Texts". public.coe.edu. Retrieved 2014-09-13.

• Kingsford, William. The History of Canada