The Northeast Coast campaign involved the Wabanaki Confederacy raiding British villages along the former border of Acadia in present-day Maine during Queen Anne's War in the spring and summer of 1712.
[1] After the Northeast Coast campaign (1703), in the spring of 1704, after the Raid on Deerfield in February, the Wabanaki again attacked Wells and York, Maine.
[3] The raids on British villages was in retaliation to their capture of the capital of Acadia, Port Royal, which the British renamed Annapolis Royal.
[4]: 285 Natives made raids on Kittery, Wells, Berwick, York, Spruce Creek, Portsmouth.
The campaign also reached into New Hampshire and Massachusetts with native raids on Exeter, Oyster River, and Dover.