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    Charles Deschamps de Boishébert (also known as Courrier du Bois, Bois Hebert) was a member of the Compagnies Franches de la Marine and was a significant...
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    Beaubears Island (redirect from Boishébert)
    command of leader of the Acadian resistance to the expulsion, Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot. The island is home to two National Historic Sites:...
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    Williamson (1832), p. 459 • Leblanc, Phyllis E. (1979). "Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot, Charles". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian...
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    the seignory of La Bouteillerie, once owned by Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot. Jean-Charles Chapais, a Father of Canadian Confederation,...
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    Massachusetts and Acadian militiamen led by French officer Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot on September 4, 1755. It took place at the Acadian...
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    New Brunswick, Canada. French Officer Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot and Ignace-Philippe Aubert de Gaspé built the fort during Father Le...
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    (now Hillsborough) fought under the command of French leader Charles Deschamps de Boishébert in the Battle of Petitcodiac, attempting to repel British troops...
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    the Expulsion began, much of the resistance was led by Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot. The Acadians and Mi’kmaq again engaged victoriously...
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    Saint John Harbour. In 1749, during Father Le Loutre's War, Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot rebuilt the fort after withdrawing from the mouth...
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    Pays-Bas. The Acadian militia was led by French officer Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot and Acadian Joseph Godin dit Bellefontaine. There...
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  • Monckton.: 183  Raid on Chignecto (1756 January) On January 20, Boishébert sent François Boucher de Niverville to Baie Verte to burn a British schooner. Niverville...
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    escaped. About eighteen were unaccounted for. Marquis de BoishébertCharles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot (1753) Raid on Gaspé Bay by Captain Hervey...
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  • Spirit Other "Yank" Levy Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot - Quebec born member of the Compagnies Franches de la Marine who was a leader...
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  • occasions between 1755 and 1758 as part of the forces of Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot. After arming a ship in 1758, Broussard traveled...
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    expanding Acadian community. The Maliseet took them to one of Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot's refugee camps for the fleeing Acadians, which...
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    it encountered French forces under the command of Captain Charles Deschamps de Boishébert and was driven off with heavy losses. The site is marked by...
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    officer Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot to Île Saint-Jean on reconnaissance to assess the size of the New England force. After Boishébert returned...
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  • Battle of the Monongahela. In Nova Scotia, French Officer Charles Deschamps de Boishébert led the Mi'kmaq and the Acadians in a guerrilla war while the...
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    initially sent French officer Boishébert to Ile Saint-Jean on a reconnaissance to assess the size of the New England force. Boishébert learned there were two...
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    who were able to right. Leblanc, Phyllis E. (1979). "Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot, Charles". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian...
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    expanding Acadian community. The Maliseet took them to one of Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot's refugee camps for the fleeing Acadians, which...
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    Military history of the Mi'kmaq (category Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine)
    (1832), pp. 111–112. Leblanc, Phyllis E. (1979). "Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot, Charles". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian...
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    of New France, Pierre François de Rigaud, ordered the top military figure in Acadia Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot to send a raiding party...
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    blocked by ice and too dangerous for the main force to cross. De Villiers ordered Boishébert to cross the river with ten men and "to block the roads of the...
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    Saint John River for Boishebert at Fort Menagoueche. Cobb returned to Halifax with the news and was ordered by Governor Charles Lawrence to blockade the...
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    and to reach French military leader Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot's refugee camp, known as "Camp de l'Espérance", on Beaubears Island near...
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    Expulsion of the Acadians). In 1757, the French general, Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot attempted to evade British troops in the Saint...
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    officer Charles Deschamps de Boishebert made his headquarters at both Shediac and Cocagne, New Brunswick. In the autumn of 1755, Boishebert established...
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    to January 4, 1761) Jacques Testard de Montigny Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville Charles Deschamps de Boishébert Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville François...
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    bishop, and school administrator (d.1859) January 9 – Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot, military (b. 1727) August 3 – Jeffrey Amherst...
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