Dummer's War

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Dummer's War (1722–1725) was a series of battles between the New England Colonies and the Wabanaki Confederacy (specifically the Miꞌkmaq, Wolastoqiyik, Penobscot, and Abenaki), who were allied with New France. The eastern theater of the war was located primarily along the border between New England, Acadia, and Nova Scotia. The western theater was located in northern Massachusetts and Vermont in the frontier areas between New France and New England. The root cause of the conflict in the eastern theater concerned the border between Acadia and New England, which New France defined as the Kennebec River in southern Maine. Mainland Nova Scotia came under British control after the Siege of Port Royal in 1710 and the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 (not including Cape Breton Island), but present-day New Brunswick and Maine remained contested between New England and New France. New France established Catholic missions among the four largest Native villages in the region: one on the Kennebec River (Norridgewock...

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