Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles
available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Raid on
Deerfield occurred during Queen Anne's War on February 29, 1704, when
the French and Native American forces under the command of Jean-Baptiste
Hertel de Rouville attacked the English settlement at Deerfield,
Massachusetts just before dawn, razing the town and killing fifty-six
colonists. De Rouville's forces consisted of forty-seven French and
French Canadian soldiers and 200 Native Americans, mostly Abenaki,
Kanienkehaka and Wyandot, accompanied by a few Pocumtuck. Of the
colonists killed, twenty-two were men, nine were women, and twenty-five
were children. The novel The Ransom of Mercy Carter gives a very
detailed story of a captive's journey.
