Head of Jeddore could be a rural community of the Halifax Regional Municipality on Trunk seven on the jap Shore of star Scotia forty seven.06 kilometers from Downtown Halifax. Throughout Dummer’s War, Governor Richard Philipps commissioned Capt. John Eliot and Capt. John Robinson in 2 sloops with regiments to guard the work at Canso, star Scotia and retrieve the captured vessels and prisoners. Toward this finish, Capt. Eliot created a coup de main on forty Natives on a ship at Winnepang (present-day Jeddore Harbour).
The natives were among six of the fishing vessels they’d condemned. There was a 2 hour battle. Capt. Eliot was badly wounded as were many of his men. 5 were killed. Then Capt. Eliot lobbed a hand granadoes (type of hand grenade) into the native vessel. Some natives were killed within the explosion. Others tried to swim onto land as they were being shot by the New Englanders. Cardinal Natives were killed.
The New Englanders managed to rescue fifteen prisoners from the vessels, whereas discovering that 9 had been killed. The Natives had sent the opposite sixteen prisoners to Richibucto, New Brunswick. Solely 5 native bodies were recovered from the battle and also the New Englanders headless the corpses and set the cut off heads on pikes encompassing Canso’s new fort.
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