| Raid on Wells (1692) | |||||||
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| Part of King William's War | |||||||
&sq=engine&lang=en&file=File:Storer_Tablet,_Wells,_ME.jpg) Storer Tablet, which marks the Storer garrison site | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 New FranceAbenaki Mi'kmaq militia[1] |
&sq=engine&lang=en&file=File:New_England_combo_flag.svg){kind=small} New England | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Sr. de la Broquerie (La Brognerie. Labocree) †[2] Sr. de Portneuf Baron de St Castin Father Jean Baudoin |
Captain James Converse Joseph Storer | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| c. 400 troops and warriors | 31 troops | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| unknown | unknown | ||||||
The Raid on Wells occurred during King William's War when French and Wabanaki Confederacy forces from New France attacked the English settlement at Wells, Maine, a frontier town on the coast below Acadia.[3] The principal attack (1692) was led by La Brognerie, who was killed. Commander of the garrison, Captain James Converse, successfully repelled the raid despite being greatly outnumbered.[4]
- ^ Clarke. Too small a world: The story of Acadia. p. 306[permanent dead link]; Villbonne, p.38
- ^ Villebon, p. 42[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Acadiensis; a quarterly devoted to the interests of the maritime provinces of Canada". St. John, N.B.
- ^ Parkman, Francis (1891). France and England in North America. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown. pp. 353–355.
Parkman Wells 1692.