[1][2][3] French colonolists and their recruited militias had attacked British villages in Newfoundland in the fall of 1727.
The following year the Mi’kmaq militia from Ile-Royale raided various British outposts in Newfoundland in August 1745.
The following spring the Mi’kmaq began to take 12 of the prisoners to a rendez-vous point close to St. John's, en route to Quebec.
The prisoners managed to overpower and kill their captors at the rendez-vous site near St. John and escaped.
Discovering the fate of their fellow captors, the other Mi’kmaq killed the remaining 11 prisoners.