By decade
The engagements fought in Massachusetts, by decade.
Where these engagements were fought
All 91 are placed on the map. Select a marker to see the engagement.
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Red markers are surveyed battlefields with a mapped boundary; navy markers are point-located engagements. Select a marker to open its page.
Notable engagements
| Engagement | Year | Outcome | Forces or losses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheeler's Surprise (Siege of Brookfield) | 1675 | Inconclusive | 8 killed in ambush |
| Battle of Bloody Brook | 1675 | Pocumtuc Confederacy victory | 40 militia + 17 teamsters killed |
| Sudbury Fight | 1676 | American victory | ~half of 70-man militia killed |
| Battle of Turner's Falls (Peskeompscut) | 1676 | Colonial victory | ~200 Natives killed; ~40 militia killed |
| Raid on Groton | 1694 | French and Indian victory | England; 23px Province of Massachusetts Bay: Killed 20… |
| Raid on Deerfield | 1704 | French-Indian victory | 56 killed, 112 captured |
| Lancaster Raid | 1676 | ~30+ killed | |
| Siege of Springfield | 1675 | 23px Massachusetts Bay: Unknown vs Agawam: Unknown | |
| Standish's raid on Namasket | 1621 | 3 of Corbitant's people wounded | |
| Tarratine raid on Agawam | 1631 | 7 killed, 7 carried away captive | |
| Bloody Brook massacre (Lathrop's company) | 1675 | between 60 and 70 English killed | |
| Attack on Pascommuck garrison | 1704 | 19 killed, ~37 captured |
Plus 79 further documented engagements in the Massachusetts record.
By conflict
King Philip's War
The 1675-1678 war that engulfed New England, from Swansea and the Great Swamp Fight to the town raids across Massachusetts, Rhode Island and the Maine frontier.
45 ENGAGEMENTS →
Queen Anne's War
The North American front of the War of the Spanish Succession, 1702-1713: the raid on Deerfield, the Northeast Coast raids, and Moore's destruction of the Florida missions.
19 ENGAGEMENTS →
Dummer's War
Father Rale's War, 1722-1725: the Wabanaki conflict along the Maine and New Hampshire frontier, Norridgewock, Pequawket, and Grey Lock's raids into the Connecticut Valley.
11 ENGAGEMENTS →
King George's War
The 1744-1748 North American war, from the New England siege of Louisbourg to the Saratoga-area raids on the New York frontier.
5 ENGAGEMENTS →
French and Indian War
The North American theater of the Seven Years' War, 1754-1763, from Jumonville Glen and Fort Necessity to the fall of Quebec.
3 ENGAGEMENTS →
King William's War
The 1688-1697 North American front of the Nine Years' War: Schenectady, the Maine and New Hampshire garrison fights, and the Massachusetts assaults on Acadia.
3 ENGAGEMENTS →
Engagements and locations are compiled from published sources: Wikipedia (text rewritten and cited as a reference, CC BY-SA 4.0); Sylvester, Indian Wars of New England (1910) (public domain); Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War (1906) (public domain).