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Years Image Event Description Keywords
1689   King William's War begins This colonial version of a European war pitted French and Abenaki forces against English settlers and their Indian allies. Indians
1704   Deerfield Massacre A winter raid resulted in the deaths or captivities of three-fifths of the town's inhabitants. The attacking force included men from Odanak and Schaghiticoke, where many New England refugees had gathered after King Philip's War. Indians, French, frontier, captivity" Philip
1745   Pigwackets in exile in Massachusetts Caught between English and French forces, the Pigwackets spent King George's War as refugees in Massachusetts Indians
1755   British deport French settlers of Acadia   Evangeline, Acadia, Longfellow
1789   French revolution begins    
1801   Reprint of French edition of Phillis Wheatley's poems Wheatley's "Poems on Various Subjects" was included in Joseph Lavalee's "The Negro Equalled by Few Europeans," published in translation in Philadelphia  
1841   Catharine Williams, "The Neutral French, or the Exiles of Nova Scotia"    
1870   French-Canadian workers fill Northern N.E. mill towns   labor, economy, immigration

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