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    The Battle of Fort Cumberland (also known as the Eddy Rebellion) was an attempt by a small number of militia commanded by Jonathan Eddy to bring the American...
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    Fort Beauséjour (French pronunciation: [fɔʁ boseʒuʁ]), renamed Fort Cumberland in 1755, is a large, five-bastioned fort on the Isthmus of Chignecto in...
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  • 1776. SS Fort Cumberland, any of a number of ships with this name This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Fort Cumberland....
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    New Ireland (Maine) (category Military history of Nova Scotia)
    They began erecting Fort George on one of the highest points of the peninsula. Alarmed by this incursion, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts sent the...
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    Louisbourg in 1745 and was chief engineer at Fort St Philip, Minorca, in 1756 when the British had surrendered the fort and island to the French after a long...
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    they participated in the Maugerville Rebellion and the Battle of Fort Cumberland in November 1776. During the St. John River expedition, Colonel Allan's...
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  • formed at Fort Ticonderoga, New York. November 10–28 – American Revolution: Battle of Fort Cumberland. November 12 – The first session of the Fifth North...
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    should join the revolution; Rebellion flared at the Battle of Fort Cumberland (1776) and at the Siege of Saint John (1777). Throughout the war, American privateers...
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    were a series of raids, campaigns, ambushes, minor skirmishes, and several full-scale frontier battles in the Old Southwest from 1776 to 1794 between...
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    No. 2 Construction Battalion (category Engineering units and formations of Canada)
    Support Regiment having the privilege of publicly recognizing the perpetuation. The awarding of this long-overdue battle honour serves as a means to celebrate...
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    A celebrated racing ship and fishing vessel, Bluenose under the command of Angus Walters, became a provincial icon for Nova Scotia and an important Canadian...
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    Viola Desmond (category Recipients of Canadian royal pardons)
    1965) was a Canadian civil and women's rights activist and businesswoman of Black Nova Scotian descent. In 1946, she challenged racial segregation at...
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    Joseph Goreham (category British Army personnel of the Seven Years' War)
    forces victorious at Fort Cumberland in 1776. In 1790, he was promoted to be a major-general shortly before his death Namesake of Goreham's Island, Mahone...
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    Years' War) when the British ordered the Expulsion of the Acadians from Acadia after the Battle of Fort Beauséjour (1755). The campaign started at Chignecto...
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    captured two of Gorham's rangers outside Fort Cumberland. In March 1758, forty Acadians and Miꞌkmaq attacked a schooner at Fort Cumberland and killed its...
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    The Battle of the St. Lawrence involved marine and anti-submarine actions throughout the lower St. Lawrence River and the entire Gulf of Saint Lawrence...
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    brings together scholars and public figures to work toward reducing the danger of armed conflict and to seek solutions to global security threats. It was founded...
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    building. A few days later, the same partisans also raided Fort Cumberland. Because of the strength of the Acadian militia and Mi'kmaw militia, British officer...
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    Battle of Fort Cumberland (1776) Raid on Lunenburg (1782) Halifax Impressment Riot (1805) Establishment of New Ireland (1812) Capture of USS Chesapeake...
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    Anti-Confederation Party (category Politics of Nova Scotia)
    Anti-Confederates won 36 out of 38 seats in the provincial legislature, and formed a government under William Annand (See 24th General Assembly of Nova Scotia). The...
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    August 1776, the Battle of Fort Washington in November 1776 and the Battle of Princeton in January 1777. It was in combat again at the Battle of Brandywine...
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    Beinn Bhreagh (/ˌbɛn ˈvriːə/ ben VREE-ə) is the name of the former estate of Alexander Graham Bell, in Victoria County, Nova Scotia, Canada. It refers...
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    American Patriot attacks on Fort Frederick, Saint John and Fort Cumberland. In 1776, privateers from Machias had burned Fort Frederick at Saint John to...
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    the British occupied the fort in the capital with all the pomp and ceremony of having captured one of the great fortresses of Europe, and renamed it Annapolis...
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    flared at the Battle of Fort Cumberland (November 1776), the Siege of Saint John (1777), the Maugerville Rebellion in 1776 and the Battle at Miramichi...
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    province of Nova Scotia, located near Shelburne in the Municipal District of Shelburne County. Founded in 1783, the village was the largest settlement of Black...
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  • Royal Fencible American Regiment (category Military units and formations established in 1776)
    achievement of the RFA (and its only combat as a regiment) was the successful defense of Fort Cumberland during the Eddy Rebellion in November, 1776, which...
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    Hector (immigration ship) (category Ships of Scotland)
    Hector was a ship that was part of the first significant migration of Scottish settlers to Nova Scotia in 1773. A replica of the original ship is located...
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    activity during the rest of the Seven Years' War. The fort would face another siege with the 1776 Battle of Fort Cumberland during the American Revolution...
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  • theaters, and expeditions of the war Boston campaign (1775–1776) Invasion of Quebec (1775–1776) New York and New Jersey campaigns (1776–1777) Saratoga campaign...
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