Key Facts
- Duration
- 19 July – 5 September 1745
- Number of raids
- 11 raids within two months
- Geographic scope
- Berwick to St. Georges (Thomaston), Maine
- Principal settlement targeted
- Casco (Falmouth / Portland)
- Trigger event
- British Siege of Louisbourg, 1745
Strategic Narrative Overview
Beginning on 19 July 1745, Wabanaki raiders systematically attacked English settlements along the Maine coast between Berwick and St. Georges. Within two months, 11 raids had been carried out, and every frontier town in the region had been struck at least once. The principal target was Casco, the largest settlement in the area, also known as Falmouth and later Portland. The campaign lasted until 5 September 1745.
01 / The Origins
King George's War (1744–1748) was the North American theater of the War of the Austrian Succession, pitting British colonists and their allies against French Canada and allied Indigenous nations. Three weeks after British colonial forces captured the French fortress of Louisbourg in June 1745, the Wabanaki Confederacy of Acadia responded by striking New England settlements, targeting the coastal zone of present-day Maine south of the Kennebec River, the former boundary of Acadia.
03 / The Outcome
The source does not record a definitive military outcome or peace agreement specific to this campaign. The raids caused widespread disruption to frontier settlements in Maine but did not permanently dislodge English colonists. The broader conflict, King George's War, concluded with the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748, which restored Louisbourg to France, though tensions between settlers and the Wabanaki Confederacy persisted.
Belligerents & Mobilization Analysis
Side A
1 belligerent
Side B
1 belligerent