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39-820: According to one historian, the level of Acadian suffering greatly increased in the late summer of 1758. Along with campaigns in Cape Sable , the Gulf of St. Lawrence , and the St. John River , the British targeted the Petitcodiac River. The British Conquest of Acadia happened in 1710. Over the next forty-five years the Acadians refused to sign an unconditional oath of allegiance to Britain. During this time period Acadians participated in various militia operations against

78-717: A Royal Warrant on 1 June 1702 under which Donegall's Regiment was one of six regiments designated for "sea service" and put under the command of the Royal Navy . The troops embarked on several ships in June 1702, and took part in the Battle of Cádiz in August 1702 and the defence of Gibraltar in spring 1705 as well as the siege of Barcelona , where the Earl of Donegall was killed on 16 April 1706. On his death Brigadier Richard Gorges

117-551: A force of 325 British soldiers, aided by Captain Joseph Gorham with 60 rangers and Rogers' Rangers , to destroy the Acadian settlements in present-day Shelburne County and Yarmouth County , Nova Scotia , Canada. According to one historian, the level of Acadian suffering greatly increased in the late summer of 1758. Along with campaigns on Ile Saint-Jean , in the Gulf of St. Lawrence , at St. John River campaign and

156-447: The 35th Regiment of Foot . They were taken to Miramachi and then Restogouch. (They were kept prisoner by Pierre du Calvet , who later released them to Halifax.) November 12, 1758, Danks' Rangers sailed up the river and returned the next day with four men and twelve women and children as prisoners. The prisoners notified Danks about the location of Joseph Broussard's home (present day Boundary Creek). Danks' company sailed immediately up

195-613: The American Revolutionary War . It suffered tremendous casualties at the Battle of Bunker Hill in June 1775: of the Light Infantry, all officers and non-commissioned officers were killed or wounded and of the Grenadier Company only five soldiers were alive and unscathed. The regiment suffered the hardships of the siege of Boston in spring 1776 before sailing to New York and taking part in

234-817: The Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland under the Duke of York and saw action at the Battle of Bergen in September 1799, the Battle of Alkmaar in October 1799 and the Battle of Castricum later that month. It went on to recover Malta from the French in September 1800. A 2nd battalion was formed in 1804. The 1st battalion was part of an expeditionary force which landed in Italy in February 1806 and saw action at

273-586: The Battle of Long Island in July 1776 and the Battle of Harlem Heights in September 1776. The commanding officer of the regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Carr, was killed at the Battle of White Plains in October 1776 and, under fresh command, the regiment fought again at the Battle of Fort Washington in November 1776. It saw action in the Philadelphia campaign during much of 1777 and then sailed for

312-561: The Battle of Maida in July 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars . The regiment were prominent in the battle and, when General Louis Compère rode into the British line, they captured him in the brief melee that followed. However, it then suffered significant losses defending Alexandria in summer 1807 during the Alexandria expedition in 1807 and had to be withdrawn to Sicily in September 1807. The 2nd battalion took part in

351-633: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham . Regimental tradition later related that the 35th routed the French Royal Roussillon Regiment , which had been present at Fort William Henry, and took white feathers from their hats as trophies. The emblem of the 'Roussillon Plume' was later incorporated into the Royal Sussex Regiment badge. It saw action again at the Battle of Sainte-Foy where 12 of its men were killed and

390-627: The French and Indian War (1754–1758), the British sought to neutralize any military threat Acadians posed and to interrupt the vital supply lines the Acadians provided to Louisbourg by deporting them. The first wave of deportations began in 1755 with the Bay of Fundy campaign , which targeted Beaubassin/Chignecto, Grand-Pré, Rivière-aux-Canards, Pisiguit, Cobequid, and Annapolis Royal. In April 1756, Major Jedidiah Preble and his New England troops, on their return to Boston, raided Pubnico , which lies within

429-551: The Penobscot River , a region that Preble and Pownall were prepared to sweep in early 1759. A part of the regulars under Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Rollo arrested and deported Acadians in the Ile Saint-Jean campaign . Major General Amherst dispatched Brigadier James Wolfe to the northeast along the coast in the Gulf of St. Lawrence campaign (1758) . He sent Wolfe with three entire regiments and seven ships of

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468-652: The Petitcodiac River campaign , the British targeted the Cape Sable region, known as Pobomcoup . The British Conquest of Acadia happened in 1710. Over the next forty-five years the Acadians refused to sign an unconditional oath of allegiance to Britain. During this time period Acadians participated in various militia operations against the British and maintained vital supply lines to the French Fortress of Louisbourg and Fort Beausejour . During

507-578: The West Indies in July 1778. It took part in the Capture of St. Lucia in December 1778 and then returned to England in September 1785. In 1782, George III added county titles to infantry regiments in order to help recruiting and the regiment became the 35th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot . The first real connection with Sussex came in 1787 when Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond , joined

546-464: The Acadians once Danks' reinforcement of a platoon of Rangers arrived. The Rangers took a dozen women and children hostage. Joseph Gorham reported that he had burned over a hundred homes and Danks reported he destroyed twenty three buildings. The Rangers then returned to Fort Frederick at the mouth of the St. John River with their prisoners. The Acadian refugees from the Petitcodiac River campaign went to

585-615: The Acadians that remained and killed two hundred head of livestock. Even after these raids, Acadians returned to these villages and the numbers grew as the deportation from peninsula Nova Scotia continued, followed by the deportation of present-day Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton. On September 10, 1757, Captain John Knox of the Forty-third Regiment was ordered to take part in an 800 man joint force of rangers and regular troops to march against Chipoudy, which seemed to be

624-549: The British and maintained vital supply lines to the French fortresses of Fort Louisbourg and Fort Beausejour. During the Seven Years' War , the British sought both to neutralize any military threat Acadians posed and to interrupt the vital supply lines Acadians provided to Louisbourg by deporting Acadians from Acadia. The first wave of these deportations began in 1755 with the Bay of Fundy campaign (1755) . Many Acadians fled those operations to present-day New Brunswick and

663-462: The Cape Sable region, and captured 72 men, women and children. En route to the St. John River campaign in September 1758, Col. Robert Monckton sent Maj. Roger Morris of the 35th Regiment, in command of two men-of-war and transport ships with 325 soldiers, to deport more Acadians. On September 16, Morris and Capt. Joseph Gorham went ashore near the mouth of the Bay of Saltponds River, believed to be

702-544: The Expulsion. Acadian families began to return to the area after 1767, many of whom are descended from the founder of Pobomcoup, Philippe Mius d'Entremont . 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot [REDACTED]   Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1801) The 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot was an line infantry regiment of the British Army raised in 1701. Under the 1881 Childers Reforms , it

741-481: The French colony of Ile Saint-Jean, now known as Prince Edward Island . After capturing Louisbourg on Ile Royal (present-day Cape Breton, Nova Scotia ) in 1758, numerous Acadians left Ile St. Jean for present-day New Brunswick. At this time the second wave of the Expulsion began from Ile Saint Jean and Cape Breton and continued in earnest in New Brunswick. According to one historian, this wave of operations

780-582: The French, the campaign culminating in the capture of Genoa in April 1814. In December 1813 the 2nd battalion was deployed to the Netherlands and it saw action at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. On 15 June 1832 it was announced in the London Gazette that the regiment would be permitted to bear the appellation of Royal, and be in future styled the 35th or Royal Sussex Regiment and that

819-472: The Petitcodiac River, suspecting that this was where the Acadian and Mi'kmaq raids originated. They made contact with 40 Acadians but were unable to catch them. On July 1, 1758, Danks himself began to pursue the Acadians. They arrived at present day Moncton and Danks' Rangers ambushed about thirty Acadians, who were led by Joseph Broussard (Beausoleil). Many were driven into the river, three of them were killed and scalped, and others were captured. Broussard

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858-574: The Petitodiac to attack Broussard's home. By the time Danks arrived the house was vacant. Danks killed the livestock and burned the fields and village. The Rangers returned to the river. Captain Silvanus Cobb continued to ferry Rangers up and down the river to destroy the houses and crops over two nights, November 13–14. On November 14, Acadian militia appeared early in the morning. Two of Danks' Rangers were missing. The Rangers overwhelmed

897-767: The Regiment. Lennox not only recruited Sussex men for the Regiment from his family estates in the County but, in 1805, obtained Royal permission for the title "Sussex" to be transferred from the 25th Regiment of Foot to the 35th Regiment of Foot. In March 1794 the regiment were part of a British force under Admiral Sir John Jervis and Lieutenant General Sir Charles Grey which captured Fort-de-France , Fort Saint Louis and Fort Bourbon on Martinique . The force went on to capture Saint Lucia in April 1794 and tried unsuccessfully to take Guadeloupe in June 1794 before returning to England in July 1795. The regiment took part in

936-705: The United Kingdom, the 35th was linked with the 107th (Bengal Infantry) Regiment of Foot , and assigned to district no. 43 at Roussillon Barracks in Chichester . On 1 July 1881 the Childers Reforms came into effect and the regiment amalgamated with the 107th (Bengal Infantry) Regiment of Foot to form the Royal Sussex Regiment . Battle honours won by the regiment were: Colonels of the Regiment were: At its formation in 1701

975-548: The disastrous Walcheren Campaign in 1809; Lieutenant Colonel Peter Petit, commanding officer of the 2nd battalion, died of the wounds he suffered during the siege of Flushing . Meanwhile, the 1st battalion captured Zakynthos and Cephalonia in October 1809 and Lefkada in March 1810. From October 1813 onwards, the 1st Battalion were landed near Trieste, and in concert with the Austrian forces of Field Marshall Nugent pursued

1014-593: The facings be accordingly changed from orange to blue. In August 1854 the regiment embarked for India and was engaged in skirmishes with rebels near Arrah in February 1858 during the Indian Rebellion . It returned to England in January 1868. As part of the Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s, where single-battalion regiments were linked together to share a single depot and recruiting district in

1053-446: The line to destroy Acadian fields and settlements. After Wolfe had left the area, the 1760 Battle of Restigouche led to the capture of several hundred Acadians at Boishébert's refugee camp at Petit-Rochelle. Cape Sable Campaign The Cape Sable campaign occurred in the fall of 1758 during the French and Indian War . The British sought to neutralize Acadian support for the French by deporting them. Colonel Roger Morris led

1092-477: The name of their colonel, but their number in the order of precedence, and Otway's duly became the 35th Regiment of Foot . In April 1756 the regiment embarked from Ireland to British North America for service in the Seven Years' War . The commanding officer of the regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel George Monro , led the defence of the Fort William Henry in August 1757 but was forced to surrender to

1131-443: The originating point for the Acadian and Mi'kmaq raids on Chignecto. Almost seven months later, on March 28, 1758, Gorham's Rangers raided Chipoudy and found only women and children; the men had left for Fort Cumberland, where they attacked a schooner. The Rangers were shocked at how fast the community had re-built after the previous raid. In June 1758, Lieutenant Meech of Benoni Danks ' Rangers along with fifty-five men advanced up

1170-557: The present day Argyle . and began to search, but unable to locate anyone, on October 4 they began to burn farms. On October 9 they found father Jean-Baptiste de Gay Desenclaves (whose principle residence was Tusket ) and 36 families (6 of which were Mi'kmaq) who were imprisoned in the local church. On October 28, Monckton's troops sent the women and children to Georges Island , while the men were kept behind and forced to destroy their village. On October 31, they were also sent to Halifax. About 130 Acadians and seven Mi'kmaq escaped. In

1209-416: The regiment was given orange facings on its red coats. This unusual military colour was decided on because of the Earl of Donegall's earlier connections with King William's House of Orange . The orange distinctions were retained until 1832 when facings of royal blue were adopted. Silver epaulettes and braiding were worn by the officers until gold was adopted in 1830. The basic design of the uniform followed

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1248-518: The spring of 1759, Maj. Erasmus James Philipps arranged for Gorham and his rangers to take prisoner 151 Acadians. They reached Georges Island with them on June 29 and were deported to Britain in November 1759. The remaining 100 Acadians and Mi'kmaq at Cape Sable fired upon Capt. Silvanus Cobb in July 1759. The Cape Sable region remains one of only two places in Acadia, the other being Memramcook , where people of Acadian descent lived before and after

1287-730: The subsequent siege of Quebec in April to May 1760. It then took part in the final and decisive campaign between July and September 1760 when Montreal fell. The regiment proceeded to take part in the Invasion of Martinique in January 1762, and departed with the British expedition against Cuba and was part of the besieging force which took Fort Morro in July 1762 and Havana in August 1762. The following year it proceeded to Florida , which had been ceded by Spain to Britain, before returning to England in 1765. The regiment returned to America arriving at Boston in April 1775 for service in

1326-599: The superior forces of General the Marquis de Montcalm . The British troops were allowed to leave the fort with their weapons but when the Native American allies of the French attacked the retreating column Montcalm did not intervene. The regiment subsequently took part in the siege of Louisbourg in July 1758 when several of the regiment's officers were wounded. In September 1759 the regiment had its revenge on Montcalm when it fought under General James Wolfe at

1365-697: Was amalgamated with the 107th (Bengal Infantry) Regiment of Foot to form the Royal Sussex Regiment . The regiment was raised in Belfast by Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall as the Earl of Donegall's Regiment of Foot or the Belfast Regiment on 28 June 1701 to fight in the War of the Spanish Succession . This was the second raising of the Earl of Donegall's Regiment: the previous regiment

1404-441: Was appointed colonel, with the unit becoming Gorges's Regiment of Foot . At the disastrous Battle of Almansa in April 1707 the regiment was practically wiped out and the regimental colours were lost. The survivors returned to Ireland where the regiment was reconstituted. In 1717 Gorges resigned as colonel and was replaced by General Charles Otway. In 1751 a royal warrant declared that regiments should no longer be known by

1443-728: Was considerably more devastating for the Acadians than the first one. The Petitcodiac is situated between two smaller rivers – the Shepody River (off Shepody Bay ) and the Memramcook river (the three bodies of water were often called "Trois-Rivières" by its inhabitants.) Weeks after the Expulsion began with the Bay of Fundy campaign (1755) , the British forces raided villages at Chipoudy and Petitcodiac ( Hillsborough, New Brunswick ). As well, on November 17, 1755, George Scott took seven hundred troops and attacked twenty houses at Memramcook ( Dorchester, New Brunswick ). They arrested

1482-465: Was raised in 1693 and disbanded on 8 February 1697: despite the names there was no lineal connection between them. The regiment was a strongly Protestant unit tasked with resisting the spread of Roman Catholicism in Britain. King William III , gave special permission for the regiment to bear orange facings to show their religious allegiance and as a mark of royal favour. Queen Anne issued

1521-652: Was seriously wounded. Danks reported that the scalps were Mi'kmaq and received payment for them. Thereafter, he received a reputation in local lore as being "one of the most reckless and brutal" of the Rangers . In September 1758, Roger's Rangers burned an Acadian settlement of 100 buildings. he Acadians captured five of British troops and retreated with them to the Miramachi. The Acadians took prisoner William Caesar McCormick of William Stark 's rangers and his detachment of three rangers and two light infantry privates from

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