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The Raid on Grand Pré was the major action of a raiding expedition conducted by the New England militia Colonel Benjamin Church against French Acadia in June 1704, during Queen Anne's War. The expedition was allegedly in retaliation for a French and Indian raid against the Massachusetts frontier community of Deerfield earlier that year.
The Raid on Chignecto occurred during King William's War when New England forces from Boston attacked the Isthmus of Chignecto, Acadia in present-day Nova Scotia.The raid was in retaliation for the French and Indian Siege of Pemaquid (1696) at present day Bristol, Maine.
John D. Williams may refer to: John David Williams or John David (born 1946), Welsh bassist and songwriter John Davis Williams (1902–1983), American academic administrator
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist, sometimes called the Burlington House Cartoon, is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. The drawing is in charcoal and black and white chalk, on eight sheets of paper that are glued together. Because of its large size and format the drawing is presumed to be a cartoon for a painting. [1]
Siege of Saint John (1645) – d'Aulnay defeats La Tour in Acadia From 1640 to 1645, Acadia was plunged into what some historians have described as a civil war. [ citation needed ] The war was between Port Royal, where the Governor of Acadia Charles de Menou d'Aulnay de Charnisay was stationed, and present-day Saint John, New Brunswick , where ...
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He was the grandson of John Hutchinson (1515–1565) who had been Sheriff, Alderman, and Mayor of the town of Lincoln, dying in office during his second term as mayor. [1] John's youngest son Edward (1564–1632) moved to Alford and had 11 children with his wife Susanna, the oldest of whom was William, who was baptized August 14, 1586 in Alford.
Laydon's mother Anne Burras was one of the first two women to arrive in Jamestown, along with Mistress Forrest who employed Anne as a maidservant. [2] In 1608, shortly after arriving at Jamestown, Anne married carpenter John Laydon. He had arrived in 1607 aboard the Susan Constant. [3] Virginia was born in October 1609 and baptized in Jamestown ...