Petitcodiac River campaign

Petitcodiac River campaign
Part of the French and Indian War
George Scott by John Singleton Copley (c.1758), The Brook
Date June 1758 – November 1758 Location Petitcodiac River, present-day New Brunswick Result British victory
Commanders and leaders
George Scott Joseph Gorham Moses Hazen Benoni Danks Silvanus Cobb William Stark	Joseph Bernard (Beausoliel) Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot Charles Germain[1]
Units involved
40th Regiment of Foot Gorham's Rangers Danks' Rangers Roger's Rangers[2]	Acadia militia Wabanaki Confederacy (Maliseet militia and Mi'kmaq militia)

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, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the St. John River, the British targeted the Petitcodiac River.^[3]