A company of French and Caughnawaga Indians killed about 50 of the 300 residents of the English colonial village of Deerfield, Massachusetts.
It was a predawn raid on February 29, 1704, during Queen Anne’s War.
Almost 100 settlers were taken to Canada as prisoners.
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