West Jeddore is a rural community of the Halifax Regional Municipality in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
On July 22, 1722, immediately after the declaration of Dummer's War, Governor Richard Philipps commissioned Capt.
John Robinson in two sloops with regiments to protect the fishery at Canso, Nova Scotia and retrieve the New England prisoners.
[3] A boarding party led by Bradstreet overwhelmed the natives with hand grenades and disciplined fire.
The New Englanders decapitated the corpses and set the severed heads on spikes surrounding Canso's new fort.