In July 1722, the Abenaki created a blockade around Annapolis Royal, the capital of Nova Scotia, in an attempt to starve it.
In response, to protect the capital from native attack, Lieutenant Governor John Doucett took 22 Mi'kmaq hostage at Annapolis Royal and Massachusetts declared war on the Abenaki.
John Robinson in two sloops with regiments to protect the fishery at Canso and retrieve the captured vessels and prisoners.
Eliot made a surprise attack on forty natives on a ship at Winnepang (present-day Jeddore Harbour).
[4] Only five native bodies were recovered from the battle and the New Englanders decapitated the corpses and set the severed heads on pikes surrounding Canso's new fort.
[1] The Mi'kmaq at West Jeddore complained of English fishermen raiding the supplies they received from the government (1753).