Petitcodiac River Campaign
| Petitcodiac River Campaign | |||||
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| Part of French and Indian War | |||||
 George Scott by John Singleton Copley (c.1758), The Brook |
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||
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George Scott Joseph Gorham Moses Hazen Benoni Danks Silvanus Cobb William Stark |
Joseph Bernard (Beausoliel) Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot Charles Germain |
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40th Regiment of Foot Gorham's Rangers Danks' Rangers Roger's Rangers |
Acadia militia Wabanaki Confederacy (Maliseet militia and Mi'kmaq militia) |
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The Petitcodiac River Campaign was a series of British military operations from June to November 1758, during the French and Indian War (the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War), to deport the Acadians that either lived along the Petitcodiac River or had taken refuge there from earlier deportation operations, such as the Ile Saint-Jean Campaign. Under the command of George Scott, William Stark's company of Rogers Rangers, Benoni Danks and Gorham's Rangers carried out the operation.
According to one historian, the level of Acadian suffering greatly increased in the late summer of 1758. Along with campaigns in Cape Sable Campaign, the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the St. John River Campaign, the British targeted the Petitcodiac River.
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 Seven Years' War, the British sought both 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). Many Acadians fled those operations to present-day New Brunswick and the French colony of Ile Saint-Jean, now known as Prince Edward Island.
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