whole prisoners; scalped ... [one] with a large knife, which they wear for that purpose, and threw him into the sea ..." In March 1751, the Mi'kmaq attacked on two more occasions, bringing the total number of raids to six in the previous two years. Three months later, on May 13, 1751, Broussard led sixty Mi'kmaq and Acadians to attack Dartmouth again, in what would be known as the "Dartmouth Massacre". Controversy Mi'kmaw historian Daniel N. Paul has disputed British accounts of the raid. Paul dismisses the possibility that Mi'kmaw people would attack unarmed civilians and speculates, instead, that the woodcutters were probably armed and better equipped compared to the Mi'kmaq raiders. Paul provides no historical evidence to support his speculations. In his book We Were Not the Savages Paul writes: Paul asserts that Cornwallis used "a few incidents such as these" to justify his bounty proclamation. Cornwallis' decision to put a bounty on the Mi'kmaq did not pivot simply on the Raid on Dartmouth in 1749. By the time Cornwallis had arrived in Halifax, there was a long history of conflict between the Wabanaki Confederacy (which included the Mi'kmaq) and the various British American colonies of North America; with the Wabanaki launching several raids along the New England-Acadia Border in Maine in response to British settlement (See the Northeast Coast Campaigns 1688, 1703, 1723, 1724, 1745). The proclamation was modelled on earlier proclamations used by New England Governors. See also List of massacres in Canada References Footnotes Citations Primary Sources Secondary Sources online at Military history of Acadia Military history of Nova Scotia Dartmouth Dartmouth Mi'kmaq in Canada 1749 in Nova Scotia Dartmouth (1749) Dartmouth Father Le Loutre's War