Raid on Grand Pré

Raid on Grand Pré
	Part of Queen Anne's War
	; Colonel Benjamin Church, the "Father of American ranging"
Date	24–26 June (3–5 July New Style) 1704
Location	Grand-Pré, Acadia (present-day Nova Scotia)
Result	English and allied victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of France Acadia; Indian allies Mi'kmaq Tribe;	Kingdom of England New England; Indian allies
Commanders and leaders
Unknown	Benjamin Church; John Gorham (Grandfather of John Gorham) ; Winthrop Hilton; Cyprian Southack
Strength
Unknown	500 volunteers and warriors
Casualties and losses
About 6 killed, unknown wounded; 45 captured	6 killed, unknown wounded

The Raid on Grand Pré was the major action of a raiding expedition conducted by the New England militia Colonel Benjamin Church against French Acadia in June 1704, during Queen Anne's War. The expedition was allegedly in retaliation for a French and Indian raid against the Massachusetts frontier community of Deerfield earlier that year.

Departing Boston on 25 May 1704 with 500 provincial militia and some Indian allies, the expedition reached the Minas Basin on 24 June, after raiding smaller settlements at Penobscot Bay and Passamaquoddy Bay. Although he lost surprise due to the famously high tides of the Bay of Fundy, Church quickly gained control of Grand-Pré, and spent three days destroying the town and attempting to destroy the dikes and levees that protected its croplands. The croplands were flooded by salt water, but the local Acadians quickly repaired the dikes after the raiders left, and the land was returned to production. Church continued his raiding expedition, striking at Beaubassin and other communities before finally returning to Boston in late July.

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