First Battle of Bloody Creek

During the Spring of 1711 the fortifications around Annapolis Royal had fallen into a sad state, there were plans to fix the earth works and top them with timber walls. To help with this the English had hired local Acadian's to cut timber from up the Annapolis river. The Acadians were cutting and making rafts of the timbers and then floating them down stream to the fort. At this time there were still a lot of Miq'mak Indians in the woods around that area and they quickly came to threaten the Acadian and were cutting the rafts of timber loose. The Acadian could not work with out a substantial number of people guarding them and by late spring work had stopped.

On June 10th a detachment of 70 English soldiers were dispatched from the Fort at Annapolis royal with orders "to harass a nearby Indian settlement and restore the transportation of wood to the fort". The soldiers traveled up the bay and into the river using a whaling boat and two flat bottom boats. With the tide going out the flat bottom boats soon fell behind about a mile. The whaling boat moved into the Annapolis river and then into a tributary on its south side where not very far up they came to a narrow spot where the ambush part of French and Indians were in wait. All but one of the men in the whaling boat were killed in the attack. The flat bottom boats hearing the shots rushed forward to assist the first boat and then they also fell into the ambush. After a heated exchange that left 30 English dead, the surviving 40 were taken prisoner and marched away. Soon after the attack the French paroled the English prisoners for an exchange of money and supplies.

The French and Indian force that set the ambush were not from the local area but Penobscot Indians from what is now Maine and French from the same area. The force had came across the bay of Fundy by canoe the day before the ambush.

At this time where was a French spy inside Annapolis royal, a French woman by the name of Louise Guyon, she had lived in the area when it was under French control and after the fall to the English had moved to Quebec, she had only recently returned to Annapolis Royal and had asked to live inside the fort, she had quickly become close with several English officers although the Fort's second in command did not trust her. It was said that her two grown sons had led the French and Indian force in the ambush. On the night of June 11th, Mrs Guyon was led from the fort and never seen again.

The Success of the French and Indian ambush at bloody creek brought together the French, Miq'mak, and Acadians in the area. They built up a force of 600 and after being armed and supplied from Placentia, marched on Annapolis Royal, it looked like the English would loose control of the area but with a lack of artillery, the French and Indian forces soon ran low on supplies and the siege failed.