Lunenburg Campaign (1758)
| Lunenburg Campaign | |||||
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| Part of the French and Indian War | |||||
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| Belligerents | |||||
 Great Britain
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Mi'kmaq militia Acadian militia |
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||
| Lieut-Colonel Patrick Sutherland Dettlieb Christopher Jessen Joseph Gorham Captain Rudolf Faesch (3rd Battalion, 60th Regiment of Foot) Montgomery's regiment Naval Captain Silvanus Cobb |
Charles Deschamps de Boishebert Chief Joseph Labrador Chief Paul Laurent |
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| Strength | |||||
| 30 | unknown | ||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||
| disputed – French report: 20 killed, 5 prisoners; British report: 5 killed, 5 prisoners | none | ||||
The Lunenburg Campaign was executed by the Mi'kmaq militia and Acadian militia against the Foreign Protestants who the British had settled on the Lunenburg Peninsula during the French and Indian War. The British deployed Joseph Gorham and his Rangers along with Captain Rudolf Faesch and regular troops of the 60th Regiment of Foot to defend Lunenburg. The Campaign was so successful, by November 1758, the members of the House of Assembly for Lunenburg stated "they received no benefit from His Majesty's Troops or Rangers" and required more protection.
Despite the British Conquest of Acadia in 1710, Nova Scotia remained primarily occupied by Catholic Acadians and Mi'kmaq. 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.
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).
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