Attack at Mocodome

Attack at Mocodome
Part of Father Le Loutre’s War
John Connor, Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Date February 21, 1753 Location Mocodome (present-day Country Harbour), Nova Scotia Result Mi’kmaq victory
Belligerents
Mi'kmaq	British America
Commanders and leaders
unknown	John Connor James Grace Michael Haggarthy † John Power †
Strength
unknown
Casualties and losses
6 Mi'kmaq	2 killed, 2 prisoners

The Attack at Mocodome (present-day Country Harbour, Nova Scotia) occurred during Father Le Loutre’s War on February 21, 1753 when two English died and six Mi'kmaq. The battle ended any hope for the survival of the Treaty of 1752 signed by Governor Hobson and chief Jean-Baptiste Cope.

Despite the British Conquest of Acadia in 1710, Nova Scotia remained primarily occupied by Catholic Acadians and Mi'kmaq. By the time Cornwallis had arrived in Halifax, there was a long history of the Wabanaki Confederacy (which included the Mi'kmaq) protecting their land by killing British civilians along the New England/ Acadia border in Maine (See the Northeast Coast Campaigns 1688, 1703, 1723, 1724, 1745, 1746, 1747).

To prevent the establishment of Protestant settlements in the region, Mi'kmaq raided the early British settlements of present-day Shelburne (1715) and Canso (1720). A generation later, Father Le Loutre's War began when Edward Cornwallis arrived to establish Halifax with 13 transports on June 21, 1749. By unilaterally establishing Halifax the British were violating earlier treaties with the Mi'kmaq (1726), which were signed after Father Rale's War. The British quickly began to build other settlements. To guard against Mi'kmaq, Acadian and French attacks on the new Protestant settlements, British fortifications were erected in Halifax (1749), Bedford (Fort Sackville) (1749), Dartmouth (1750), Lunenburg (1753) and Lawrencetown (1754). There were numerous Mi'kmaq and Acadian raids on these villages such as the Raid on Dartmouth (1751).

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