Battle of Falmouth (1690)
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battle-of-falmouth-1690-169-4866197
title:
Battle of Falmouth (1690)
text:
The Battle of Falmouth involved Joseph-François Hertel de la Fresnière and Baron de St Castin leading troops as well as the Wabanaki Confederacy in New Brunswick to capture and destroy Fort Loyal and the English settlement on the Falmouth neck, then part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The commander of the fort was Captain Sylvanus Davis. After two days of siege, the settlement's fort, called Fort Loyal, surrendered. The community's buildings were burned, including the wooden stockade fort, and
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1690 battle of King William's War
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Falmouth_(1690)
date created:
2011-04-27T23:05:51Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T14:02:26Z
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