| Lunenburg campaign | |||||
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| Part of the French and Indian War | |||||
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Jean-Baptiste_Moreau,_Nova_Scotia.jpg) Jean-Baptiste Moreau, buried many of the 32 killed | |||||
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| Belligerents | |||||
 Great Britain |
Mi'kmaq militia Acadian militia | ||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||
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Lieut-Colonel Patrick Sutherland[1] Dettlieb Christopher Jessen[2] Joseph Gorham Captain Rudolf Faesch (3rd Battalion, 60th Regiment of Foot) [3][4][5] Montgomery's regiment[6] Naval Captain Silvanus Cobb[7] |
Charles Deschamps de Boishebert Chief Joseph Labrador[8] Chief Paul Laurent | ||||
| Strength | |||||
| 30 | unknown | ||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||
| 32 killed[9] | none | ||||
The Lunenburg campaign was executed by the Mi'kmaq militia and Acadian militia against the Foreign Protestants who the British had settled on the Lunenburg Peninsula during the French and Indian War. The British deployed Joseph Gorham and his Rangers along with Captain Rudolf Faesch and regular troops of the 60th Regiment of Foot to defend Lunenburg.[10] The campaign was so successful, by November 1758, the members of the House of Assembly for Lunenburg stated "they received no benefit from His Majesty's Troops or Rangers" and required more protection.[11]
- ^ Canadian Biography
- ^ Journal of Captain Christopher Jessen
- ^ "The German soldier in the wars of the United States". 2010-07-21. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
- ^ Desbraisey, p. DesBrisay, 50
- ^ Bell (1961), p. 517, note 33a.
- ^ p. 55
- ^ Desbraisey, p. 28
- ^ The Labrador family of Lunenburg were metis and were present still at Lunenburg in 1753 and 1755. They were also among the Acadians deported from Piziquid in 1755. (Bell (1961), p. 510) (See History of Lunenburg County, p. 343)
- ^ According to Rev. Jean-Baptiste Moreau
- ^ "Regular" refers to a professional British soldier, paid by the British Crown.
- ^ Bell (1961), p. 512, note 44.