[1] During King William's War, on 25 February 1690, 45 British freebooters from Ferryland led by Herman Williamson attacked Plaisance by land.

[2] The population was imprisoned in the church for six weeks, until the English left on 5 April with the colony's supplies.

On 16 September, five English vessels anchored just outside the range of the French cannon at Placentia.

[4][full citation needed] An estimated 500 disembarked from the ships to go ashore.

The seamen of the visiting French ships held off a landing and the English squadron withdrew on 21 September after burning the houses at Point Verde.