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

In the fall of 1692, in the Battle of Placentia (1692), under the command of Commodore Thomas Gillam (Williams), five English ships armed with 62 cannon and 800 men.

De Monbeton was joined on this expedition by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, who marched overland from Plaisance to spearhead a punishing attack on the English settlements in a famous Avalon Peninsula Campaign.

A strong British relief force of 1500 troops reoccupied St. John's in the summer of 1697: they found the town abandoned, pillaged and every building destroyed.

[6] During Queen Anne's War, the arrival of Governor Daniel d'Auger de Subercase in 1702 was beneficial.

After a five-week siege, Subercase retired to Placentia with all the booty his men and several hundred captive townspeople could carry.

That summer, detachments of French and Indians attacked and burned out all English communities in Conception, Trinity and Bonavista Bays.

Governor Brouillan had previously estimated that the colony needed at least 300 soldiers to ensure an effective defence.

[2] In 1713, the French gave up their right to settlement in Newfoundland and established a new stronghold at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island.