Cape Sable Campaign
| Cape Sable Campaign | |||||
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| Part of French and Indian War | |||||
 Roger Morris By Benjamin West |
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||
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Roger Morris Jedidiah Preble Joseph Gorham Erasmus James Philipps |
Jean-Baptiste de Gay Desenclaves Joseph Landry Charles Dantermong |
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35th Regiment of Foot Gorham's Rangers Royal Americans Roger's Rangers |
Acadia militia Mi'kmaq militia |
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The Cape Sable Campaign occurred during the French and Indian War when Colonel Roger Morris led a force of 325 British soldiers, Captain Joseph Gorham led 60 rangers and Roger's Rangers to destroy the Acadian settlements in present-day Shelburne County and Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada, in the fall of 1758.
According to one historian, the level of Acadian suffering greatly increased in the late summer of 1758. Along with campaigns on Ile Saint-Jean, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, at St. John River Campaign and the Petitcodiac River Campaign, the British targeted the Cape Sable region.
The British Conquest of Acadia happened in 1710. Over the next forty-five years the Acadians refused to sign an unconditional oath of allegiance to Britain. During this time period Acadians participated in various militia operations against the British and maintained vital supply lines to the French Fortress of Louisbourg and Fort Beausejour. During the French and Indian War, the British sought to neutralize any military threat Acadians posed and to interrupt the vital supply lines Acadians provided to Louisbourg by deporting Acadians from Acadia.
The first wave of these deportations began in 1755 with the Bay of Fundy Campaign (1755). In April 1756, Major Jedidiah Preble and his New England troops, on their return to Boston, raided Pubnico and captured 72 men, women and children.
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