The
Apalachee massacre was a series of raids by
English colonists from the
Province of Carolina and their Indian allies against a largely pacific population of
Apalachee Indians in northern
Spanish Florida that took place during
Queen Anne's War in 1704. Against limited Spanish and Indian resistance, a
network of missions was destroyed; most of the population either was killed or captured, fled to larger Spanish and French outposts, or voluntarily joined the English.