Deerfield Raid: French and Natives Attack a Massachusetts Town
The raid on Deerfield happened at 4 a.m. in a February snowstorm. The attackers walked over snowdrifts piled against the town stockade — winter had built them a ramp. They killed 56 people in two hours. Then they marched 112 captives 300 miles north to Canada in winter. Twenty died on the march. Most of the survivors never came home. Some didn't want to. They'd married into Mohawk families and converted to Catholicism.
February 29, 1704
322 years ago
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