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| rdfs:comment | - At the close of King Philip's War the Massachusetts provincial government sought to defend its borders by settling groups of veterans on Indian lands. This was seen as an inexpensive deterrent to French aggression, a way to shore up English claims to contested ground, a good defensive strategy in the face of ongoing Indian resistance to British expansion, and a reward to the veterans of the war. In November, 1734, the following was presented to the General Court of Massachusetts
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| Branch | - Provincial Irregulars; British Army Ranger
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| Territory | - France cedes New France to Great Britain, retaining Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and transfers Louisiana to Spain
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| Battles | - King George's War
French and Indian War
* Crown Point Expedition
*Battle of Lake George
*Siege of Fort William Henry 1757
*Fort William Henry 1757
*Battle of Carillon 1758
*Battle of Ticonderoga 1759
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| Result | - British Victory; Treaty of Paris
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| combatant | - Cherokee
- Ottawa
- Shawnee
- * British America
Iroquois Confederacy
Catawba
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Wabanaki Confederacy
:* Abenaki
:* Mi'kmaq
Algonquin
- Caughnawaga Mohawk
- Lenape
- Ojibwa
- Wyandot
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| abstract | - At the close of King Philip's War the Massachusetts provincial government sought to defend its borders by settling groups of veterans on Indian lands. This was seen as an inexpensive deterrent to French aggression, a way to shore up English claims to contested ground, a good defensive strategy in the face of ongoing Indian resistance to British expansion, and a reward to the veterans of the war. Bernardston, Massachusetts, initially known as Falls Fight Township. was a frontier settlement created by and for the families of soldiers who had fought in King Phillips War specifically in the Battle of Turner's Falls a major engagement under Captain Turner in 1676. Major John Burke was an early settler of the town, his father was one of the veterans granted land in Falls Fight. In November, 1734, the following was presented to the General Court of Massachusetts The petition was granted and the proprietors of the new township began recruiting 60 families to settle in the town. John Burke, Samuel Connable, Lieut. Ebenezer Sheldon, and Deacon Sheldon, built the first four houses, in 1738. They were of hewn logs, with port-holes in the walls for defence against the Indians.
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