season seven episode 13 of the curse of
Oak Island begins at the recently
drained swamp for the stones which make
up the paved Wharf are now fully exposed
Tom Nolan who murk lagina has invited to
inspect the formation says quote oh
there's no way that's natural it's like
you're standing on a paved road in the
middle of a bog unquote later in the
episode dr. Ian Spooner examines the
formation and finds a stick crushed
between two rocks he claims that this
indicates that the feature could not
have been formed by glaciers and
suggests that the team ought to
carbon-date the stick if they want to
know when the swamp was formed later on
Billy Gerhardt Jack Begley and Gary
Drayton excavate more of the swamp in an
effort to define the extent of the paved
Wharf the treasure hunters uncover
another layer of rocks which they
suspect might constitute an extension of
the structure despite its lying a foot
higher than the paved Wharf in a war
room meeting near the beginning of the
episode Rick lagina and Doug Crowell
show their fellow treasure hunters
photos of the structures at the fortress
of Louisbourg which they visited in the
previous episode dug also shows the team
in old photo given to him by a Louisburg
historian which depicts a stratum of
rocks lying atop a layer of earth this
structure which Doug says is an original
piece of Louisbourg flooring bears
remarkable resemblance to the paved
wharf later in the episode Rick lagina
Billy Gerhart and Laird Nevin traveled
to the Dartmouth Heritage Museum in
Dartmouth Nova Scotia where they follow
up on the lead introduced by Kevin
Wright out in season 7 episode 7
indicating that oak islands legendary
90-foot stone might lie in the museum's
backyard despite digging a deep 20 foot
by 20 foot hole in the spot at which
ride out believed the stone once laid
the treasure hunters were unable to
unearth anything of interest later on
Jack Begley and Gary Drayton do some
metal detecting around the eye of the
swamp they quickly unearth the iron head
of a pickaxe which Gary suggests might
be an old pick used for tunneling
several feet away they find what appears
to be the rusted head of a round point
shovel near the end of the episode the
fellowship of the dig meets in the war
room to learn the results of the
carbon-dating of the hundred and
six foot deep wood found in borehole FG
12 in season 7 episode 11 which some of
the crew members suspected might be a
fragment of the original money pit Craig
tester reveals that the wood was dated
from 16 26 to 1680 a date range which
roughly corresponds with many of the
artifacts discovered in the money pit
area throughout season 5 Marty lagina
also remarks that the upper range of the
woods carbon dating is also consistent
with that of the twigs which dr. Ian
Spooner and his graduate students
discovered in core samples taken from
the eye of a swamp in season 7 episode 9
this new development prompts Gary
Drayton and Marty lagina to wonder aloud
what was happening in the area in the
late 1600s the answer is that the
Atlantic Northeast was teetering
precariously on the precipice of war
namely the nine years war known as King
William's war in Canada and the United
States in the late 1600s the Nova
Scotian Peninsula made up the bulk of
Acadia a French colony which stretched
from the Kennebec River in what is now
the state of Maine to the northernmost
tip of what is now Cape Breton Island to
the south of Acadia were the new English
colonies of Massachusetts New Hampshire
Rhode Island and Connecticut from 1675
to 1688 New England had been subjected
to a series of devastating algonquin
raids known collectively as King
Phillip's war King Philip being the
nickname of chief Metacomet a powerful
leader of the Wampanoag Indians an
eccentric French military officer named
Jean WA saw dis song cast all who lived
as a chief among the Abenaki Indians of
Acadia took advantage of the conflict by
incentivizing the Wabanaki Confederacy
an alliance of five Acadian first
nations with whom France was friendly
had join in the attack against the
southerly Englishman from 1675 to 1688
ribes engaged in annual raiding
campaigns against the new English
settlements prompting a prominent new
English military leader named Richard
Waldron to retaliate with a strike on a
magma settlement in Acadia by the time
King Philip's War ended in 1678 the
English and French colonists on North
America's Atlantic coast had grown to
resent each other and their respective
First Nations allies one incident which
star
we illustrate the sentiment took place
in the summer of 16 77 when a party of
new English settlers captured a couple
of magma warriors on a fishing trip off
a southern coast of Acadia and brought
them back to their village of Marblehead
Massachusetts when they arrived in town
of their captives the fishermen were
mobbed by a throng of furious no English
ladies who had lost their fathers
husbands and sons in the war against the
natives armed with sticks and stones the
vengeful women set upon the Indian
prisoners and attacked any of the
fishermen who tried to protect them left
with little choice the new Englishman
relinquished their captives and watched
and helpless horror as a ladies vented
their rage upon them according to one of
the colonists who witnessed the atrocity
quote we were kept at such a distance
that we could not see the prisoners till
they were dead and then we found them
with their heads off and gone and their
flesh in a manner pulled from their
bones unquote when King Phillip's war
finally ended in 1678 the Atlantic
Northeast enjoyed ten years of relative
peace although the New Englanders in the
Wabanaki tribesman neither forgot nor
forgave the atrocities that they had
suffered at each other's hands the
Abenaki nation one of the five tribes of
the Wabanaki Confederacy finally broke
the spell in early 1688 launching a
series of surprise raids against New
England that spring Edmund Andros the
widely unpopular governor of what was
then the dominion of New England
retaliated by launching a minor raid
against Acadia plundering an Abenaki
village situated on the shores of what
is now southern Maine significantly this
village was the home of Sunkist all the
French officer turned Indian chief who
was away at the time four months later
the New Englanders carried out a second
raid against a fishing village of
Chateau buck doe now guys borough Nova
Scotia situated on the north eastern
shores of the Acadian Peninsula the
Wabanaki Confederacy countered by
reading the new English villages of new
Dartmouth now New Castle Yarmouth and
Kennebunk while conflict resumed in the
Atlantic north east a larger war was
brewing across the Atlantic Ocean France
at that time was the world's leading
superpower led by the powerful Catholic
monarch
the 14th Avvo King Louie was on friendly
terms with King James ii of Great
Britain a fellow Catholic ruler he was
feared by much of the rest of Europe
many suspected that Louie harbored
designs to one day a rural all of
Christendom and threaded the balance of
power tipping and Frances favor to the
east of France lay the Holy Roman Empire
a loose agglomeration of German states
of both Catholic and Protestant
persuasion nominally led by the Emperor
Leopold the first another Catholic and a
member of the House of Habsburg one of
Europe's most powerful noble families at
that time the Holy Roman Empire was at
war with turkeys Ottoman Empire and King
Louie had done nothing to help his
fellow Catholic ruler repel the Islamic
incursion his inaction fostered
resentment not only in the Emperor but
also in the sickly king charles ii of
spain another member of the Habsburg
family who was plagued by congenital
illnesses resultant of the Habsburgs
practice of multi-generational
intermarriage last but not least of the
major political players in Western
Europe at that time was the fledgling
Dutch Republic which had several decades
earlier emerged victorious from an 80
year fight for independence from
Habsburg Spain the Dutch Republic was
ruled in part by its stadt holder the
devoutly Protestant Prince Willy in the
3rd of orange who considered King Louie
the fourteenth his archenemy 16 years
earlier while Holland was busy fighting
an evil war with England King Louie had
taken advantage of the distraction and
marched his army right into the heart of
the Dutch Republic an incident which so
enraged the Dutch people that they
killed and ate their own Prime Minister
it had taken the dutch six years to push
back the Gallic invaders and Prince
William was determined to never allow
the French King to get the better of him
again at that time the English
Parliament Protestant - a man was none
too pleased with a Catholicism of
Britain's King James ii for decades
prior zealous English parliamentarians
had beheaded James's father King Charles
the first in part because of his Pro
Catholic leanings rather than repeat the
mistake of their predecessors which led
to the bloody English Civil War and the
disastrous Commonwealth of England that
followed it the Parliament
aryans secretly plotted with William the
3rd Prince of Orange
urging the Dutch stat holder to seize
the British crown in a bloodless coup
d'etat William acquiesced in the winter
of 1688 he and forty thousand
mercenaries sailed through the Strait of
Dover and across the English Channel
disembarked at Torbay marched on London
and assumed the British throne and what
the parliamentarians dubbed the Glorious
Revolution while the Dutch Prince was
crowned King William the third of Great
Britain that opposed King James a second
fled to France where he and his
descendants became known as the Jacobite
pretenders while William the third had
been organizing his invasion of Great
Britain louis xiv had invaded the
western frontier of the holy roman
empire hoping to acquire territory on
which he could build defensive
fortresses for the purpose of securing
the french border alarmed by Frances
military might and Luba the 14th
apparent expansionism William the 3rd
decided to join forces with his people's
old enemies the Habsburgs who are now
fighting the French on their own
doorstep in 1689 the Dutch Republic
Great Britain Spain in the Holy Roman
Empire allied to form the League of
Augsburg also known as a grand alliance
and promptly declared war on France
thus the nine years war sometimes
referred to as King William's war in
Canada and the United States commenced
back in the Atlantic northeast the
conflict between French and British
colonists and their respective First
Nations allies was already in full swing
the first few years of King William's
war were characterized by Wabanaki and
french-canadian raids against new
English settlements many of these led by
Jean Vasant a song Keystone and a French
sufficient missionary named father Louis
Pierre 3 in 1690 the New Englanders
began to hit back launching their own
counter-offensives into Acadia the first
of these campaigns was led by Benjamin
Church a veteran of King Philip's War
who trained his own soldiers in the
guerrilla tactics of the East Coast
Native Americans forming his own unit of
special light infantry men who
constituted the first regiment of what
would one day become the US Army Rangers
church's first expedition into Acadia
culminated in the battle near what is
Portland Maine the second new English
offensive against Acadia was led by Sir
William Phips a character who features
in an interesting Oak Island theory
presented by engineers Graham Harris and
les McPhee in their book Oak Island and
its lost treasure William Phips was
considered something of a homegrown hero
in New England a lowborn ship right and
a lumber merchant from the colony of
Massachusetts he had allowed his
hard-won livelihood to literally go up
in flames
in order to save the lives of the
residents of a particular village during
a Wabanaki raid that took place during
King Phillip's war more recently he had
been awarded a knighthood from King
William the 3rd for salvaging the
contents of a sunken Spanish treasure
galleon to the Caribbean a portion of
which Harris and McPhee contend lies at
the bottom of the money pit
despite Phipps his complete lack of
military experience the Massachusetts
militia promoted him to the rank of
Major General in the spring of 6090 and
gave him command of the naval expedition
against New France first Phipps launched
an attack against Port Royal the capital
of acadia situated on the south western
shores of e Acadian Peninsula to his
delight Phipps found that port Royals 90
soldiers were actually in the process of
dismantling their fortifications so that
stronger ones can be built in their
place
none of the fort's cannons are presently
functional and to top it off the
villages armory housed a total of 19
muskets at that time the garrison
surrendered without a fight
about a month after his capture of Port
Royal
Sir William Phips tasked one of his
officers with conducting yet another
raid on the Acadian village of shed a
buck dough in addition to housing a
French military post called fort st.
Louis shadow bucko served as a
headquarters of the company of acadia an
important french fishing company On June
the 3rd 1690 Phipps is Captain and
eighty-eight new English soldiers
stormed fort st. Louis although they
were heavily outnumbered the twelve
Acadian soldiers who manned the fort put
up a fierce six hour defense when the
New Englanders began to firebomb the
fort the French defenders realized that
future resistance would be futile they
surrendered to the new English captain
who allowed them to retreat across the
Gulf of st. Lawrence to the French
colony of Plaisance on the island of
Newfoundland that fall Phipps launched a
third offensive against the French
this one targeting the city of Quebec
the heart of New France accompanied by
2,300 Massachusetts militiamen Phipps
sailed from Boston up the Atlantic coast
and further up the Saint Lawrence River
the new English army reached the new
French capital on October 16th 1690
whereupon Phipps sent an envoy into the
city to deliver his terms of surrender
the French commander governor Frontenac
had the emissary blindfolded and brought
to his residence the Chateau of st.
Louis where his war council was
assembled there the envoi delivered
Phipps his terms of surrender telling
Frontenac that he had one hour to reply
the enraged governor famously retorted
the only reply Phipps would receive
would be from the mouths of his cannons
that evening the New Englanders launched
their assault on Quebec from the very
start it was clear that their enterprise
was doomed to fail members of the 1200
man landing party were prevented from
disembarking on the wooded shores
outside the city by French Canadian
soldiers and First Nations warriors who
fired at them from concealment in the
trees meanwhile Phipps is three main
warships Faraj the city with cannon fire
only to be pounded in turn by Quebec
Shore batteries which exceeded them in
firepower following a futile attempt to
overcome the French shore defences the
besiegers returned to Boston and defeat
in the years that followed Phipps has
failed assault on Quebec a number of
battles between the French and English
and the respective First Nations allies
took place in the borderlands between
Acadia in New England Benjamin church
launched two more offensives into what
is now Maine no English sailors made
another assault on Port Royal and French
and English Mariners engage in a naval
battle in the Bay of Fundy in 1696 the
French and their native allies captured
Fort William Henry a large stone
fortress situated near what is now
Bristol Maine which had been built on
the orders of Sir William Phips the
attackers returned up the Atlantic coast
and proceeded to destroy nearly every
English settlement in Newfoundland in
response Benjamin Church led a number of
brutal raids on McMurray and Acadian
settlements throughout what is now the
province of New Brunswick the nine years
war finally ended in 1697 and its
belligerence
the Treaty of Rhys ouack a document
which among other things restored the
pre-war borders in North America peace
would reign in Acadia for another four
years
until the death of the airless Spanish
King and the subsequent war of Spanish
Succession but that's a story for
another time
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