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    The Battle of Fort Cumberland (also known as the Eddy Rebellion) was an attempt by a small number of militia commanded by Jonathan Eddy to bring the American...
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  • 1776. SS Fort Cumberland, any of a number of ships with this name This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Fort Cumberland....
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    Fort Beauséjour (French pronunciation: [fɔʁ boseʒuʁ]), renamed Fort Cumberland in 1755, is a large, five-bastioned fort on the Isthmus of Chignecto in...
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    New Ireland (Maine) (category Military history of Nova Scotia)
    They began erecting Fort George on one of the highest points of the peninsula. Alarmed by this incursion, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts sent the...
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    should join the revolution; Rebellion flared at the Battle of Fort Cumberland (1776) and at the Siege of Saint John (1777). Throughout the war, American privateers...
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  • formed at Fort Ticonderoga, New York. November 10–28 – American Revolution: Battle of Fort Cumberland. November 12 – The first session of the Fifth North...
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    A celebrated racing ship and fishing vessel, Bluenose under the command of Angus Walters, became a provincial icon for Nova Scotia and an important Canadian...
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    Viola Desmond (category Recipients of Canadian royal pardons)
    1965) was a Canadian civil and women's rights activist and businesswoman of Black Nova Scotian descent. In 1946, she challenged racial segregation at...
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    were a series of raids, campaigns, ambushes, minor skirmishes, and several full-scale frontier battles in the Old Southwest from 1776 to 1794 between...
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    captured two of Gorham's rangers outside Fort Cumberland. In March 1758, forty Acadians and Miꞌkmaq attacked a schooner at Fort Cumberland and killed its...
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    they participated in the Maugerville Rebellion and the Battle of Fort Cumberland in November 1776. During the St. John River expedition, Colonel Allan's...
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    Battle of Fort Cumberland (1776) Raid on Lunenburg (1782) Halifax Impressment Riot (1805) Establishment of New Ireland (1812) Capture of USS Chesapeake...
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    Louisbourg in 1745 and was chief engineer at Fort St Philip, Minorca, in 1756 when the British had surrendered the fort and island to the French after a long...
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    building. A few days later, the same partisans also raided Fort Cumberland. Because of the strength of the Acadian militia and Mi'kmaw militia, British officer...
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  • theaters, and expeditions of the war Boston campaign (1775–1776) Invasion of Quebec (1775–1776) New York and New Jersey campaigns (1776–1777) Saratoga campaign...
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    the British occupied the fort in the capital with all the pomp and ceremony of having captured one of the great fortresses of Europe, and renamed it Annapolis...
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    Anti-Confederation Party (category Politics of Nova Scotia)
    Anti-Confederates won 36 out of 38 seats in the provincial legislature, and formed a government under William Annand (See 24th General Assembly of Nova Scotia). The...
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    Beinn Bhreagh (/ˌbɛn ˈvriːə/ ben VREE-ə) is the name of the former estate of Alexander Graham Bell, in Victoria County, Nova Scotia, Canada. It refers...
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    Joseph Goreham (category British Army personnel of the Seven Years' War)
    forces victorious at Fort Cumberland in 1776. In 1790, he was promoted to be a major-general shortly before his death Namesake of Goreham's Island, Mahone...
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    Years' War) when the British ordered the Expulsion of the Acadians from Acadia after the Battle of Fort Beauséjour (1755). The campaign started at Chignecto...
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    flared at the Battle of Fort Cumberland (November 1776), the Siege of Saint John (1777), the Maugerville Rebellion in 1776 and the Battle at Miramichi...
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  • battle of the American War of Independence in the west. The battle was fought in July 1776, and pitted the American regional Patriot militia against the...
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    August 1776, the Battle of Fort Washington in November 1776 and the Battle of Princeton in January 1777. It was in combat again at the Battle of Brandywine...
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    brings together scholars and public figures to work toward reducing the danger of armed conflict and to seek solutions to global security threats. It was founded...
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    The Battle of the St. Lawrence involved marine and anti-submarine actions throughout the lower St. Lawrence River and the entire Gulf of Saint Lawrence...
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    85th Battalion (Nova Scotia Highlanders), CEF (category Battalions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force)
    war. The battalion is most famous for capturing Hill 145 in their first battle. Today, the Vimy Memorial stands on Hill 145. The 85th Battalion was raised...
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    media related to 1776. 1776 (MDCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar...
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    American Patriot attacks on Fort Frederick, Saint John and Fort Cumberland. In 1776, privateers from Machias had burned Fort Frederick at Saint John to...
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    William Hall (VC) (category Indian Rebellion of 1857 recipients of the Victoria Cross)
    the Crimean War serving ashore in a Naval Brigade from Rodney at the battles of Inkerman and Sevastopol in 1854. After a brief tour on HMS Victory, Hall...
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    1st (Halifax-Dartmouth) Field Artillery Regiment (category Field artillery regiments of Canada)
    existence as early as 1776. The unit was officially recognized in 1791 and served into the mid-19th century, when it underwent a series of name changes. In...
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