Battle of Petitcodiac

Battle of Petitcodiac
Part of the French and Indian War

A portrait of Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot
DateSeptember 4, 1755
Location
Result French-Indian victory
Belligerents
 France
 New France
Mi'kmaq
Massachusetts
Commanders and leaders
Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot Joseph Frye
Silvanus Cobb
Joseph Gorham
Strength
300 200
Casualties and losses
1 killed
3 wounded
22-42 killed
6 wounded
45 captured[1][2]

The Battle of Petitcodiac was an engagement which occurred during the Bay of Fundy campaign of the French and Indian War. The battle was fought between the British colonial forces from 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 village of Village-des-Blanchard on the Petitcodiac River.

  1. ^ Brodhead, John Romeyn (1858). Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York. Vol. 10. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co. p. 358.
  2. ^ p. 336