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    11306°N 64.28056°W / 45.11306; -64.28056 Fort Vieux Logis (later named Fort Montague) was a small British frontier fort built at present-day Hortonville, Nova...
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    happened at Fort Vieux Logis, Grand-Pré (present-day Hortonville, Nova Scotia). The native and Acadia militia laid siege to Fort Vieux Logis for a week...
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    present-day Windsor (Fort Edward, 1750); Grand Pre (Fort Vieux Logis, 1749) and Chignecto (Fort Lawrence, 1750). (A British fort already existed at the...
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    communities: present-day Windsor (Fort Edward); Grand Pre (Fort Vieux Logis) and Chignecto (Fort Lawrence). (A British fort already existed at the other major...
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  • St. Louis, Guysborough County Fort St. Louis, Shelburne County Fort Vieux Logis Fort William Augustus Fortress of Louisbourg Georges Island Halifax Citadel...
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    Regiment of Foot. Cox served as commander at Fort Vieux Logis, after the Siege of Grand Pre and later at Fort Edward, participating in the Bay of Fundy Campaign...
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    communities: present-day Windsor (Fort Edward); Grand Pre (Fort Vieux Logis) and Chignecto (Fort Lawrence). (A British fort - Fort Anne - already existed at the...
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    communities: present-day Windsor (Fort Edward); Grand-Pré (Fort Vieux Logis) and Chignecto (Fort Lawrence). A British fort (Fort Anne) already existed at the...
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    communities: present-day Windsor (Fort Edward); Grand-Pré (Fort Vieux Logis) and Chignecto (Fort Lawrence). (Of course, a British fort already existed at the other...
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  • War, Captain Handfield was first in command of Fort Vieux Logis (1749); successfully defending the fort during the Siege of Grand Pre, while losing his...
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    communities: present-day Windsor (Fort Edward); Grand Pré (Fort Vieux Logis) and Chignecto (Fort Lawrence). A British fort already existed at the other major...
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    communities: present-day Windsor (Fort Edward); Grand Pré (Fort Vieux Logis) and Chignecto (Fort Lawrence). A British fort (Fort Anne) already existed at the...
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  • communities: present-day Windsor (Fort Edward); Grand Pre (Fort Vieux Logis) and Chignecto (Fort Lawrence). (A British fort already existed at the other major...
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    Isthmus of Chignecto to build a church and dykes. The British built Fort Vieux Logis in the area during Father Le Loutre's War, which was attacked by the...
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    1749, the British built forts in the major Acadian communities: Fort Edward (at Piziquid), Fort Vieux Logis at Grand Pré and Fort Lawrence (at Beaubassin)...
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    became the new capital for the colony in 1749. The British established Fort Vieux Logis at Grand Pre, which a Mi'kmaq and Acadian militia attacked in the Siege...
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    the Landscape of Grand Pré UNESCO World Heritage Site. The site of Fort Vieux Logis is located by the river at Hortonville, built by the British during...
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    Father Le Loutre's War John Gyles - King William's War John Handfield - Fort Vieux Logis Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour - Acadian Civil War Chief Madockawando...
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    communities: present-day Windsor (Fort Edward); Grand Pre (Fort Vieux Logis) and Chignecto (Fort Lawrence). (A British fort already existed at the other major...
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    communities: present-day Windsor (Fort Edward); Grand Pre (Fort Vieux Logis) and Chignecto (Fort Lawrence). (A British fort already existed at the other major...
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    communities: present-day Windsor (Fort Edward); Grand-Pré (Fort Vieux Logis) and Chignecto (Fort Lawrence). A British fort already existed at the other major...
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    History of Halifax, Brookhouse Press. 1895. (2002 edition). p 7 "Fort Vieux Logis". Northeast Archaeological Research. Archived from the original on...
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    communities: present-day Windsor (Fort Edward); Grand Pre (Fort Vieux Logis) and Chignecto (Fort Lawrence). (A British fort already existed at the other major...
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    establishing forts in the largest Acadian communities, at Pisiguit (Windsor) (Fort Edward), Grand Pré (Fort Vieux Logis), and Chignecto (Fort Lawrence)....
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    was poorly tolerated by Cornwallis. Of six deserters stationed at Fort Vieux Logis, two were shot and the rest reprieved. Three other deserters were hanged...
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    communities: present-day Windsor (Fort Edward); Grand Pre (Fort Vieux Logis) and Chignecto (Fort Lawrence). (A British fort already existed at the other major...
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    Royal, as well as the new British forts in the Acadian communities of Grand Pre (Fort Vieux Logis), Pisiquid (Fort Edward) and Chignecto (see Battle at...
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    communities: present-day Windsor (Fort Edward), Grand Pre (Fort Vieux Logis) and Chignecto (Fort Lawrence). (A British fort already existed at the other major...
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    He is buried in the crypt of St. Paul's Church (Halifax)). Fort Vieux Logis was renamed Fort Montague Wilmot, Nova Scotia Montague River on Prince Edward...
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    Blanzaguet-Saint-Cybard Château de Bourg-Charente in Bourg-Charente Logis de Bourgneuf in Cherves-Richemont Logis de Boussac in Cherves-Richemont Château de Bouteville...
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