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WRIGHT, Thomas

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   Date  Event(s)
1 1702 
  • 8 Mar 1702—13 Jul 1713: Queen Anne's War
    Queen Anne's War broke out in 1702 and was primarily a conflict between French, Spanish and English colonists for control of the North American continent while the War of the Spanish Succession was being fought in Europe. Each side was allied with various Indigenous communities.
2 1704 
  • 29 Feb 1704: Deerfield Massacre
    The Raid on Deerfield, also known as the Deerfield Massacre, occurred during Queen Anne's War when French and Native American raiders attacked the English colonial settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, just before dawn. They burned parts of the town and killed 47 colonists. The raiders left with 112 colonists as captives, whom they took overland the nearly 300 miles to Montreal; some died or were killed along the way because they were unable keep up. Roughly 60 colonists were later ransomed by their associates, while others were adopted by Mohawk families at Kahnawake and became assimilated into the tribe. In this period, English colonists and their Indian allies were involved in similar raids against French villages along the northern area between the spheres of influence.
3 1710 
  • 5 Oct 1710—13 Oct 1710: Siege of Port Royal
    British captured the Acadian capital Port Royal. The siege of Port Royal, also known as the Conquest of Acadia, was a military siege conducted by British regular and provincial forces against a French Acadian garrison and the Wabanaki Confederacy at the Acadian capital, Port Royal. The successful British siege marked the beginning of permanent British control over the peninsular portion of Acadia, which they renamed Nova Scotia, and it was the first time the British took and held a French colonial possession
4 1722 
  • 1722—1725: Dummer's War
    Dummer's War (also known as Father Rale's War, Lovewell's War, Greylock's War, the Three Years War, the Wabanaki-New England War, or the Fourth Anglo-Abenaki War) was a series of battles between the New England Colonies and the Wabanaki Confederacy (specifically the Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, Penobscot, and Abenaki), who were allied with New France. The eastern theater of the war was located primarily along the border between New England and Acadia in Maine, as well as in Nova Scotia; the western theater was located in northern Massachusetts and Vermont at the border between Canada (New France) and New England. During this time, Maine and Vermont were part of Massachusetts.
5 1740 
  • 1740—1748: King George's War
    King George's War is the name given to the military operations in North America that formed part of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748). It was the third of the four French and Indian Wars. It took place primarily in the British provinces of New York, Massachusetts Bay (which included Maine as well as Massachusetts at the time), New Hampshire (which included Vermont at the time), and Nova Scotia. Its most significant action was an expedition organized by Massachusetts Governor William Shirley that besieged and ultimately captured the French fortress of Louisbourg, on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, in 1745
6 1745 
  • 12 May 1745—28 Jun 1745: Siege of Louisbourg
    The siege of Louisbourg took place in 1745 when a New England colonial force aided by a British fleet captured Louisbourg, the capital of the French province of Île-Royale (present-day Cape Breton Island) during the War of the Austrian Succession, known as King George's War in the British colonies.
7 1754 
  • 1754—10 Feb 1763: The French and Indian War
    The French and Indian War The French and Indian WarThe French and Indian War was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes.
8 1755 
  • 1755—1764: Acadian Expulsion
    The Expulsion of the Acadians was the forced removal, by the British, of inhabitants of parts of a Canadian-American region historically known as Acadia, between 1755 and 1764. The area included the present-day Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, and the present-day U.S. state of Maine. The Expulsion, which caused the deaths of thousands of people, occurred during the French and Indian War (the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War) and was part of the British military campaign against New France.
9 1770 
  • 5 Mar 1770: Boston Massacre
    The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. The event was heavily publicized as "a massacre" by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.
10 1775 
  • 18 Apr 1775—14 Jan 1784: American Revolutionary War
    American Revolutionary War American Revolutionary War
  • 19 Apr 1775: Battles of Lexington and Concord
    The Battles of Lexington and Concord were some of the leading military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge. They marked the outbreak of armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and Patriot militias from America's thirteen colonies.
  • 10 May 1775: Americans capture Fort Ticonderoga in NY
    The capture of Fort Ticonderoga occurred during the American Revolutionary War on May 10, 1775, when a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold surprised and captured the fort's small British garrison.
11 1785 
12 1786 
  • 1786—1787: Shays' Rebellion
    Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes on both individuals and their trades. The fighting took place in the areas around Springfield during 1786 and 1787.
13 1789 
14 1797 
15 1798 
16 1801 
17 1809 
18 1812 
  • 12 Jun 1812—16 Feb 1815: War of 1812
    War of 1812 War of 1812 The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its indigenous allies against the United Kingdom and its own indigenous allies in British North America, with limited participation by Spain in Florida. It began when the United States declared war on 18 June 1812. Although peace terms were agreed upon in the December 1814 Treaty of Ghent, the war did not officially end until the peace treaty was ratified by the United States Congress on 17 February 1815.
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20 1817 
21 1825 
22 1829 
23 1832 
24 1835 
25 1836 
26 1837 
27 1838 
  • 1838—1839: Aroostook War
    The Aroostook War was a military and civilian-involved confrontation in 1838–1839 between the United States and the United Kingdom over the international boundary between the British colony of New Brunswick and the U.S. state of Maine. The term "war" was rhetorical; local militia units were called out but never engaged in actual combat. The event is best described as an international incident.
28 1841 
29 1845 
30 1849 
31 1850 
32 1853 
33 1857 
34 1861 
35 1865 
36 1869 
37 1877 
38 1881 
39 1885 
40 1889 
41 1893 
42 1897 
43 1898 
44 1899 
45 1901 
46 1909 

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