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26-640: Fort Edward could refer to: Canada Fort Edward (Nova Scotia) , a military fort located in Windsor, Nova Scotia Fort Edward (Prince Edward Island) , a military fort located in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island South Africa Fort Edward (South Africa) , a military fort established in the Spelonken area of the northern Transvaal region United States Fort Edward (town), New York ,

52-490: A result, when the New England Planters arrived, many houses and barns were available for use. Fort Edward was one of four forts in which Acadians were imprisoned over the nine years of the expulsion (the others were Fort Frederick, Saint John, New Brunswick ; Fort Cumberland ; and Fort Charlotte, Georges Island, Halifax ). On average, over a period of nine years, 350 Acadian prisoners at a time were held at

78-680: A soldier and where I became a corporal ." The fort was designated a National Historic Site in 1920. The blockhouse was additionally designated a Classified Federal Heritage Building in 1994. The Windsor Agricultural Fair is the oldest continuous agricultural fair in North America, beginning with the first generation of New England Planters at Fort Edward (1765). Lawrencetown, Halifax County, Nova Scotia Father Le Loutre's War began when Edward Cornwallis arrived to establish Halifax with 13 transports on June 21, 1749. To guard against Mi'kmaq, Acadian and French attacks on

104-722: A town in New York Fort Edward (village), New York , a village in New York See also [ edit ] Fort Edwards (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Fort Edward . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fort_Edward&oldid=792656514 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

130-492: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Fort Edward (Nova Scotia) 44°59′47″N 64°08′07″W  /  44.996397°N 64.1354°W  / 44.996397; -64.1354 Fort Edward is a National Historic Site of Canada in Windsor, Nova Scotia , (formerly known as Pisiguit ) and was built during Father Le Loutre's War (1749-1755). The British built

156-468: Is the oldest extant in North America. A cairn was later added to the site. Despite the British Conquest of Acadia in 1710, Nova Scotia remained primarily occupied by ethnic French Catholic Acadians and Mi'kmaq . Father Le Loutre's War began when Edward Cornwallis arrived with 13 transports on 21 June 1749 to establish Halifax . To guard against Mi'kmaq, Acadian, and French attacks on

182-590: The American Revolution the 84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants) , 2nd Battalion were stationed at Forts throughout Atlantic Canada. Fort Edward was the headquarters for the 84th Regiment in Atlantic Canada. The 84th Regiment moved from Halifax to Fort Edward to guard against a land assault on Halifax. Throughout the war, Fort Edward housed prisoners taken from American Privateering ships. The Jacobite heroine Flora MacDonald spent

208-507: The "troops and inhabitants" at Fort Edward, Fort Sackville and Lunenburg "could not be reputed in any other light than as prisoners." In the early 1760s it was illegal for Acadians to reside in Nova Scotia; families and individuals who had avoided capture in 1755 were imprisoned. The prison lists for Fort Edward between 1761-1762 still exist (For a list of the prisoners see List of Acadian Prisoners - Fort Edward ). In 1762, one of

234-616: The Acadians and Mi'kmaq took three English prisoners. Gorham was ordered to Fort Edward. On Gorham's march to Pisiquid to secure the area prior to building Fort Edward, the Rangers engaged the Mi'kmaq in the Battle at St. Croix (1750). The Fort is named after Edward Cornwallis , who established Halifax, Nova Scotia . On 9 May 1750, Phillips was fired on by French and Native. Capt. John Rous

260-507: The British occupation of Nova Scotia and Acadia by raiding the various communities. In late April 1754, at the outbreak of the French and Indian War , Joseph Broussard and a large band of Mi'kmaq and Acadians left Chignecto for Lawrencetown. They arrived in mid-May and in the night opened fire on the village. Broussard killed and scalped four British settlers and two soldiers. By August, as

286-716: The annual or semi-annual relief to their destination. They carried the officers and their families to and from, as required. Fort Edward played an important role in the Bay of Fundy Campaign (1755) of the Acadian Expulsion . Shortly after the Battle of Fort Beauséjour on the eve of the Expulsion, the commander at Fort Edward Captain Alexander Murray wrote his wife saying, the Acadians "are in as great anxiety as I am about their fate". A month later, at exactly

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312-466: The building. A few days later, the same partisans raided Fort Cumberland . Because of the strength of the Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq militia , British officer John Knox wrote that "In the year 1757 we were said to be Masters of the province of Nova Scotia, or Acadia, which, however, was only an imaginary possession." He said that the situation in the province was so precarious for the British that

338-583: The duration of the war. Among the recruits passing through the camp was the ill-fated Hollywood film director William Desmond Taylor . During World War I the British Army used the fort to establish a training depot for Jewish men training to fight against the Ottoman Turks in Palestine and ultimately help Great Britain, France and America defeat Germany. Known as The Jewish Legion , this unit,

364-519: The fort to help prevent the Acadian Exodus from the region. The Fort is most famous for the role it played both in the Expulsion of the Acadians (1755) and in protecting Halifax, Nova Scotia from a land assault in the American Revolution . While much of Fort Edward has been destroyed, including the officers' quarters (which burned down in 1922) and barracks, the blockhouse that remains

390-476: The garrison. Both the Acadians and Mi'kmaq resisted the Expulsion. In September 1756, a group of 100 Acadians ambushed a party of thirteen soldiers of the 47th Regiment of Foot who were working outside the fort. They took seven men prisoner, and six escaped back to the fort. In April 1757, a band of Acadian and Mi'kmaq partisans raided a warehouse near Fort Edward, killing thirteen British soldiers. After taking what provisions they could carry, they set fire to

416-462: The local Acadian community by paying unfair prices for supplies and randomly imprisoning some of the men. On November 1, 1753, Captain Hale was relieved by Commander Floyer as the commander of Fort Edward. Fort Edward, Fort Lawrence , and Fort Anne were all supplied by and dependent on the arrival of Captains Cobb, Jeremiah Rogers or John Taggart, in one of the government sloops. These vessels took

442-629: The most famous prisoners, Acadian Joseph Broussard (Beausoleil) was imprisoned here. Between June 1763 and 1764, in the Minas region, the British authorities took 363 Acadians into custody at Fort Edward. While prisoners, the Acadians were forced to work for the New England Planters to establish their farmlands. When the war finished, rather than stay and work as subordinates, the Acadians settled with their compatriots in present-day New Brunswick and Saint Pierre and Miquelon . During

468-564: The new British Protestant settlements, the latter erected fortifications in Halifax (1749), Bedford ( Fort Sackville ) (1749), Dartmouth (1750), Lunenburg (1753), and Lawrencetown (1754). Within 18 months of establishing Halifax, the British took firm control of peninsular Nova Scotia by building fortifications in all the major Acadian communities: present-day Windsor (Fort Edward); Grand Pre ( Fort Vieux Logis ) and Chignecto ( Fort Lawrence ). (A British fort - Fort Anne - already existed at

494-407: The new Protestant settlements, British fortifications were erected in Halifax (1749), Bedford ( Fort Sackville ) (1749), Dartmouth (1750), Lunenburg (1753) and Lawrencetown (1754). In 1754, Nova Scotia 's Lieutenant Governor Charles Lawrence , offered land grants to twenty families, who referred to their settlement as Lawrence's Town, which became Lawrencetown. The Acadians and natives resisted

520-467: The other major Acadian centre of Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia . Cobequid was not fortified.) Fort Edward was the site of the Acadian church for the parish of l'Assomption (established 1722). After initially failing to take the settlements of Chignecto , Major Charles Lawrence , on 7 June 1750, he had Acadians destroy their church so that Fort Edward could be built in its place. In early March 1750,

546-464: The raids continued, the residents and soldiers were withdrawn to Halifax. By June 1757, the settlers had to be withdrawn completely again from the settlement of Lawrencetown because the number of Indian raids eventually prevented settlers from leaving their houses. (Throughout the war, the Mi'kmaq and Acadian militias were also successful in containing the British settlements of Dartmouth , Lunenburg as well as Fort Edward and Fort Sackville .) It

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572-566: The same time as Lieutenant Colonel John Winslow read the expulsion orders in Grand Pré; September 5 at 15:00 hrs, Captain Murray read the order to the 183 Acadian males he had imprisoned at Fort Edward. On October 20, 920 Acadians from Pisiquid were loaded on to four transports. Unlike at the neighbouring community of Grand Pré, the English did not burn and destroy the buildings at Pisiquid. As

598-613: The time indicate that the men lived in tents on the hillside below the blockhouse. Many of these recruits came with Zionist ideals and dreams of a restored Palestinian homeland for the Jews. In Windsor, Nova Scotia 1100 non-commissioned officers were trained. Founders of the legion included David Ben-Gurion , who became the first prime minister of Israel, and Ze'ev Jabotinsky , both men were trained at Fort Edward. At age 70, David Ben-Gurion reported on his time at Fort Edward: "I will never forget Windsor where I received my first training as

624-596: The winter of 1778 - 1779 at the Fort with her husband, Alan Macdonald, before she returned alone to Scotland. Fort Edward was also active during the War of 1812 . During this time, the Fort continued to protect Nova Scotia against assault by American Privateers. Fort Edward remained part of the British defenses in Nova Scotia until 1858. During World War I, it was utilized as a training depot for Canadian and British soldiers. The site became known informally as "Camp Fort Edward" for

650-527: Was "stood up" for service in 1917 manned by Jews from around the world who came to Windsor for training on the slopes of the fort with Major W.F.D Bremner. The Legion was made up of Battalions 38-42. At Fort Edward was the 39th Battalion, 1100 Jewish troops led by Lt Colonel Eliezer Margolin . Bremner lived in Castle Fredericks and is an ancestor of Falmouth's James J. Bremner (See Halifax Provisional Battalion ). Pictures and first-hand accounts of

676-492: Was in a skirmish off Fort Edward at the same time, where he killed two native people, whose comrades took their bodies. At first Alexander Murray commanded at Fort Sackville . In September 1751 he was given command of Fort Edward, where he remained for most of the ensuing seven years, except for a tour of duty at Halifax in 1753. On 12 December 1752, Murray was charged by the Nova Scotia Council with exploiting

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