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The New Hampshire Provincial Regiment was a provincial military regiment made up of men from the New Hampshire Militia during the French and Indian War for service with the British Army in North America. It was first formed in 1754 with the start of hostilities with France.
New Hampshire Provincial Battalion, under Major Thomas Tash. Garrison Company at Fort William and Mary, under Captain Thomas Bell. In 1758 New Hampshire furnished 800 men in a regiment; a portion of the regiment served in the expedition against Louisbourg under its colonel, and the remainder did duty on the western frontier under its Lieutenant ...
The presence of the French language and the New England variety of French, in New Hampshire, has been around since the foundation of the state. Workers in the area even developed their own dialect of French. [1] After English, French is the second-most spoken language in the state, and is spoken particularly in the north, near the Quebec border.
A New Hampshire historical marker [6] about the raid, titled "Oyster River Massacre", was erected by the State of New Hampshire in the late 1960s. [7] It was removed in 2021 after the state's Commission on Native American Affairs deemed the marker's language "problematic" in a filing with the New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources . [ 7 ]
The Raid on Dover (also known as the Cochecho Massacre) took place in Dover, New Hampshire, on June 27–28, 1689.Led by Chief Kancamagus of the Pennacook, it was part of King William's War, the North American theater of the Nine Years' War (1688–1697), fought between England and France and their respective Native allies.
New England French (French: français de Nouvelle-Angleterre) is a variety of French spoken in the New England region of the United States. [4] It descends from Canadian French because it originally came from French Canadians who immigrated to New England during the Grande Hémorragie .
Jul. 17—A Salem contractor has been sentenced to a year in jail for taking a deposit for costs associated with a construction job and spending the money on personal items, prosecutors said.
Massachusetts governed the New Hampshire settlements until 1680, when it became the royally chartered Province of New Hampshire. In 1686 the territory became part of the Dominion of New England , which was effectively disbanded in 1689 following the 1688 Glorious Revolution in England.