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Rogers’s Rangers attack an Abenaki village

St. Lawrence region; Abenaki people

A ranger expedition commissioned under British military authority attacked an Abenaki community. Dunbar-Ortiz uses the campaign to show the incorporation of settler methods of attacking civilians into imperial war.

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Context / qualification

Casualty totals and individual conduct need independent corroboration.

Sources

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 4

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