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    The Raid on Grand Pré was the major action of a raiding expedition conducted by the New England militia Colonel Benjamin Church against French Acadia...
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    home to the Grand-Pré National Historic Site. On June 30, 2012, the Landscape of Grand-Pré was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Grand-Pré was founded...
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  • Grand-Pré may refer to: Carlos de Grand Pré, governor of the West Florida in 1805 and of the Natchez District Grand-Pré National Historic Site, a park...
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    Grand-Pré National Historic Site is a park set aside to commemorate the Grand-Pré area of Nova Scotia as a centre of Acadian settlement from 1682 to 1755...
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    New England retaliatory Raid on Grand Pré, Piziquid and Chignecto in 1704. The raid was led by Benjamin Church who was fired on by the local militia, who...
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    Raid on Castine, Maine, Raid on St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Raid on Grand Pre, Raid on Pisiguit (present day Falmouth and Windsor), and the Raid on Chignecto...
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    The siege of Grand Pré happened during Father Le Loutre's War and was fought between the British and the Wabanaki Confederacy and Acadian militia. The...
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    Port-la-Joye 1747 Battle of Grand Pré 1749 – 1755 Father Le Loutre's War 1749 Raid on Dartmouth 1749 Siege of Grand Pre 1749-1750 Battles at Chignecto...
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    He raided present-day Castine, Maine and then continued on by conducting raids against Grand Pre, Pisiquid and Chignecto. In the summer of 1705, Mi'kmaq...
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    The Battle of Grand Pré, also known as the Battle of Minas and the Grand Pré Massacre, was a battle in King George's War that took place between New England...
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    During Queen Anne's War, Mi'kmaq and Acadians resisted during the Raid on Grand Pré, Pisiquit, and Chignecto in 1704. The Acadians assisted the French...
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  • and participating in the Raid on Grand Pré. In retaliation for the Northeast Coast Campaign (1703), there was a bounty put on Father Sebastian Rale. Finding...
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    attack. Church had moved on to conduct the real purpose of his expedition: the Raid on Grand Pré, Raid on Pisiguit, and Raid on Chignecto. He returned to...
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    Battle of Grand Pré. During Father Le Loutre’s War, the conflict continued. The Mi'kmaq attacked New England Rangers in the Siege of Grand Pré and Battle...
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    King George's War (category Pre-statehood history of Maine)
    leader in an earlier skirmish. Other raids included the 1747 French and Mi'kmaq raid on Grand Pré, Nova Scotia; and a raid in 1748 by Indian allies of the...
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    with other ships to continue with the raid on St. Stephen, raid on Grand Pré, the raid on Piziquid, and the raid on Chignecto. In 1759, the British Army...
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    months. The campaign began with raiding Ferryland on November 10, 1696, and continued along the coast until they raided the village of Heart's Content...
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    Bloody Creek in 1711. The raid on Grand Pré, launched by New England forces, was in retaliation for a French-First Nations raid on Deerfield in the British...
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    numerous battles against the British in the Raid on Grand Pré, Battle of Grand Pré, and the Siege of Grand Pré. After forcibly expelling the Acadians, British...
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    fort. After a five-day battle, on 18 April, d'Aulnay offered quarter to all if Françoise-Marie would surrender the fort. On that basis, knowing she was badly...
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    was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1979. Grand-Pré Park is a National Historic Site of Canada situated in Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia, and preserved as a living...
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    governor’s founding of Halifax that year. In response to three Mi'kmaq raids on the British, Cornwallis created a proclamation to drive the Mi'kmaq off...
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    at Port-la-Joye 1747 Battle of Grand Pré 1749–1755 Father Le Loutre's War 1749 Raid on Dartmouth 1749 Siege of Grand Pre 1749–1750 Battles at Chignecto...
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    Maine), Passamaquoddy Bay (present-day St. Stephen, New Brunswick), Grand Pré, Pisiquid, and Beaubassin (all in present-day Nova Scotia). There were...
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    the first session to take place on Saturday, followed by qualifying for the main race. The Grand Prix itself remains on Sunday. The FIA sporting regulations...
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    other major Acadian settlements before the Expulsion of the Acadians: Grand Pré, Chignecto, Cobequid and Pisiguit. The English made six attempts to conquer...
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    He did return to raid Chignecto again during Queen Anne's War in a campaign against Acadia that also included the Raid on Grand Pre. Military history...
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    The Raid on Deerfield, also known as the Deerfield Massacre, occurred during Queen Anne's War on February 29, 1704, when French and Native American raiders...
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    John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states...
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    After the Raid on St. Stephen, Church moved on to raid other Acadian villages in the Raid on Grand Pré, the Raid on Piziquid, and the Raid on Chignecto...
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