Father Le Loutre's War | |||||||
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Soldier of the 29th Regiment of Foot (right) guarding Halifax against raids by Acadian and Mi'kmaq militia (1749); Horsemans Fort in the background; painting by Charles William Jefferys |
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Belligerents | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Father Jean-Louis Le Loutre Father Pierre Maillard Father Charles Germain Father Henri Daudin Father Jacques Girard Father Jacques Manach Joseph Broussard (Beausoleil) Chief Jean-Baptiste Cope Chief Paul Laurent Louis de La Corne Charles Deschamps de Boishébert Joseph-Nicolas Gautier Chief Étienne Bâtard |
Edward Cornwallis Charles Lawrence John Gorham John Rous Peregrine Hopson Silvanus Cobb Thomas Pichon Ezekiel Gilman William Clapham George St. Loe John Salusbury Thomas Moncrieff Joshua Winslow John Hamilton (POW) Francis Bartelo † Edward How † |
Father Le Loutre's War (1749–1755), also known as the Indian War, the Micmac War and the Anglo-Micmac War, took place between King George's War and the French and Indian War in Acadia and Nova Scotia. On one side of the conflict, the British and New England colonists were led by British Officer Charles Lawrence and New England Ranger John Gorham. On the other side, Father Jean-Louis Le Loutre led the Mi'kmaq and the Acadia militia in guerrilla warfare against settlers and British forces. (At the outbreak of the war there were an estimated 3,000 Mi'kmaq and 12,000 Acadians in the region.)