Ile Saint-Jean campaign

Ile Saint-Jean campaign
Part of French and Indian War

Isle Saint-Jean before the deportation
DateOctober–November 1758
Location
Ile Saint-Jean (present-day Prince Edward Island)
Result British victory
Commanders and leaders
Andrew Rollo, 5th Lord Rollo Gabriel Rousseau de Villejouin[1]
Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot
Units involved
40th Regiment of Foot
Roger's Rangers[2]		 Acadia militia
Wabanaki Confederacy (Maliseet militia and Mi'kmaq militia)

The Ile Saint-Jean campaign was a series of military operations in fall 1758, during the Seven Years' War, to deport the Acadians who either lived on Ile Saint-Jean (present-day Prince Edward Island) or had taken refuge there from earlier deportation operations.

Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Rollo led a force of 500 British troops (including James Rogers leading his company of Rogers Rangers) to take possession of Ile Saint-Jean.[2][3]

The percentage of deported Acadians who died during this expulsion made it the deadliest of all the deportations during the Expulsion (1755–1762). The total number of Acadians deported during this campaign was second only to that of the Bay of Fundy campaign (1755).[4]

  1. ^ Rodger, Andrew (1979). "Ile Saint-Jean campaign". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. IV (1771–1800) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  2. ^ a b Loescher, Burt Garfield (1969). The History of Rogers' Rangers: The First Green Berets. San Mateo, California: San Francisco[etc.] p. 34.
  3. ^ Faragher (2005), p. 403.
  4. ^ Lockerby (2008), p. 85.