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    colony was created in 1784. The Revolution had a significant impact on shaping Nova Scotia, "almost the 14th American Colony". At the beginning, there was...
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    the colonial wars, New England Planters and Foreign Protestants immigrated to Nova Scotia. After the American Revolution, Loyalists immigrated to the...
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    to Nova Scotia during the founding of Louisbourg. The second major migration of people to Nova Scotia happened following the American Revolution, when...
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    Halifax is the capital and most populous municipality of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the most populous municipality in Atlantic Canada....
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    in northwestern Nova Scotia, Canada, located at the northeast end of the Cumberland Basin, an arm of the Bay of Fundy, and 22 km (14 mi) south of the...
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    in southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada. Shelburne lies at the southwest corner of Nova Scotia, at roughly the same latitude as Portland, Maine, in the United...
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    Nova Scotia (also known as Mi'kma'ki and Acadia) is a Canadian province located in Canada's Maritimes. The region was initially occupied by Mi'kmaq. The...
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    Shoreham. During the American Revolution, Nova Scotia was invaded regularly by American Revolutionary forces and privateers, including the 1782 Raid on Chester...
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    community on the east coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada within the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. Sydney was founded in 1785 by the British...
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    Duke of Cumberland's Regiment (category Military history of Nova Scotia)
    Charles Montagu Nova Scotia in the American Revolution "The journal of Alexander Chesney : A South Carolina loyalist in the revolution and after". 1921...
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    Yarmouth is a town in southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada. A port town, its industries include fishing and tourism. It is the terminus of a ferry service...
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  • located in Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is a service centre for the western part of the county and is situated on Highway 101. The community...
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    located along the Atlantic Ocean of the Province of Nova Scotia's South Shore. It is situated within the Region of Queens Municipality which is the local governmental...
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    Canso is a community in Guysborough County, on the north-eastern tip of mainland Nova Scotia, Canada, next to Chedabucto Bay. In January 2012, it ceased...
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    the American Revolution, Nova Scotia was invaded regularly by American Revolutionary forces by land and sea. Throughout the war, American privateers devastated...
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    on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada. Founded in 1753, the town was one of the first British attempts to settle Protestants in Nova Scotia. The economy...
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    Monarchism in the United States American RevolutionNova Scotia theatre Expulsion of the Loyalists List of places named for Loyalists (American Revolution) Frederick...
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  • of the American Revolution. Francis Legge was appointed the royal governor of Nova Scotia in 1773, just as troubles were brewing in the American colonies...
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    American Revolution Scotch-Irish Americans#American Revolution Nova Scotia in the American Revolution Watauga Association List of American Revolutionary...
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    in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located near Shelburne in the Municipal District of Shelburne County. Founded in 1783, the village was the largest...
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    Nova Scotia (/ˌnoʊvə ˈskoʊʃə/ NOH-və SKOH-shə; French: Nouvelle-Écosse; Scottish Gaelic: Alba Nuadh, lit. 'New Scotland') is one of the thirteen provinces...
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    village located in Digby County, Nova Scotia on the Sissiboo River near its terminus on Baie Ste. Marie. The area was settled in the 1760s by New England...
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    grants and supplies to help them resettle in Nova Scotia. Some of the European Loyalists who emigrated to Nova Scotia brought their enslaved servants with...
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    The community of Halifax, Nova Scotia was created on 1 April 1996, when the City of Dartmouth, the City of Halifax, the Town of Bedford, and the County...
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    Battle of Blomindon (category Battles of the American Revolutionary War in Nova Scotia)
    against three Nova Scotian vessels off Cape Split, Nova Scotia. American Privateers caught two Nova Scotia Vessels. The first Nova Scotia vessel was re-captured...
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    John Robert Grant (category Loyalists who settled Nova Scotia)
    in the American Revolution and then became an American Loyalist and the first British settler of Summerville, Nova Scotia. Captain Grant was born in Strathspey...
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    County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Liverpool, the county seat of Queens County, was founded in 1759 by the New England Planters...
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    known as the Planters Barracks) was a fortification that was built at present-day Starr's Point, Nova Scotia during the American Revolution to protect...
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    Nova Scotia occurred between 1772 and 1775 and involved an approximate one thousand migrants from mainly Yorkshire, England arriving in Nova Scotia in...
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    Raid on Saint John (category Battles of the American Revolutionary War in Nova Scotia)
    was the first hostile act committed against Nova Scotia and it resulted in raising the militia across the colony. During the American Revolution, Americans...
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