Battle of Petitcodiac

Date	September 4, 1755
Location	Village-des-Blanchard, Acadia (near present-day Hillsborough, New Brunswick)
Result	French, Acadian and Indian victory

Belligerents

Great Britain

France
Mi'kmaq militia
Acadian militia

Commanders and leaders

Joseph Frye
Captain Silvanus Cobb
Joseph Gorham (wounded)

Charles Deschamps de Boishebert

Strength

200

120

Casualties and losses

22 killed, six wounded (disputed: French source indicates 42 killed, 45 prisoners)

1 killed, 3 wounded

The Battle of Petitcodiac was fought during the Bay of Fundy Campaign (1755) of the French and Indian War. The battle was fought between the British colonial troops and Acadian resistance fighters led by French Officer Charles Deschamps de Boishébert on September 4, 1755 at the Acadian village of Village-des-Blanchard on the Petitcodiac River (present-day Hillsborough, New Brunswick, Canada).

After the capture of Fort Beauséjour in June 1755 by British troops during the Seven Years' War, they began rounding up and deporting the local French population. Using Fort Cumberland as a base, British troops and colonial militia made forays into the surrounding countryside, rounding up Acadians and destroying their settlements. Some of the Acadians surrendered, while others fled from the coastal communities into the interior, where they joined with local Mi'kmaq and Maliseet Indians in resisting the British deportation.

Charles Deschamps de Boishébert was a French militia commander who became a resistance leader. Based in the Miramichi River valley, he helped Acadians fleeing the British deportation operations escape to Quebec. After the fall of Beausejour, Monckton sent a naval squaldorn to evict him from the satellite fort at the mouth of the Saint John River. Knowing that he could not defend his position, Bosishebert destroyed the fort. When he received word that the British were planning an expedition to the Petitcodiac River, he hurried to Chipoudy, where he organized 120 Acadians, Maliseets and Mi'kmaq into a guerrilla fighting force.

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