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Hello. Welcome to the Pirate History Podcast. My name is Matt. Thank you for listening.

We last visited New England at the outbreak of King William's War, the North American

Theatre of the Nine Years War. That's what the history books call it at least, but honestly

this conflict was going to break out regardless of what Louis XIV was doing in the Rhine

Land, which isn't to say that the Nine Years War had nothing to do with what was happening

in North America. A state of open warfare between France and England and the Netherlands,

and basically the rest of Europe, did make the fighting in North America much more severe.

When we left off the war in America was really heating up. Recall the escalating raids

by both French and English forces and their Native American allies. Recall that they

culminated in the August 1689 raid on Pimiquid, modern-day Bristol main. The English commander,

Major Church, who was sent up to fight off the first French raid with these, but then

who left, who was not there when the French returned with a large force of Wabanaki warriors.

And recall the slaughter of the men and boys of Pimiquid, the capture of the women and girls

and a few of the men, one of whom escaped to tell a tale of beatings and mass rape and

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