Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield

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On February 29| 1704| a party of French and Indian raiders descended on the Massachusetts village of Deerfield| killing fifty residents and capturing more than a hundred others. In this masterful work of history| Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney reexamine the Deerfield attack and place it within a framework stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. Drawing on previously untapped sources| they show how the assault grew out of the aspirations of New England family farmers| the ambitions of Canadian colonists| the calculations of French officials| the fears of Abenaki warriors| and the grief of Mohawk women as they all struggled to survive the ongoing confrontation of empires and cultures.