Siege of Grand Pre

Site of Siege of Grand Pre, Hortonville, Nova Scotia

Date	November 27-December 4, 1749
Location	Grand Pre, Nova Scotia (present-day Hortonville, Nova Scotia) 45°6′18.14″N 64°17′55.26″W / 45.1050389°N 64.2986833°W / 45.1050389; -64.2986833Coordinates: 45°6′18.14″N 64°17′55.26″W / 45.1050389°N 64.2986833°W / 45.1050389; -64.2986833
Result	British victory

Belligerents

Wabanaki Confederacy (Mi'kmaq militia
Maliseet militia)
Penobscot
Acadia militia

British America

Commanders and leaders

unknown

Captain John Handfield
John Hamilton (POW)

Strength

300 Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, and Acadians

unknown British regulars

Casualties and losses

unknown

25 prisoners; 2 killed

The Siege of Grand Pré happened during Father Le Loutre’s War and was fought between the British and the Wabanaki Confederacy and Acadian militia. The siege happened at Fort Vieux Logis, Grand Pré (present-day Hortonville, Nova Scotia). The native and Acadia militia laid siege to Fort Vieux Logis for a week in November 1749. One historian states that the intent of the siege was to help facilitate the Acadian Exodus from the region.

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).

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.

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