Fort Beauséjour
Fort Beauséjour was a military fortification in Canada . The fort was built by French troops in 1751 as a strategic response to the British Fort Lawrence built the previous year . Fort Beauséjour is located on the Isthmus of Chignecto , immediately northeast of the Missaguash river , which today marks the southeast section of the border between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia .
history
As early as the 18th century, the river separated the British from the French sphere of influence on the North American continent. Since the Peace of Utrecht , the Isthmus of Chignecto formed the de facto border between the areas of influence of the two colonial powers. However, due to unclear contractual provisions, the British also claimed the areas northeast of the isthmus, which were still under French control. The construction of Fort Beauséjour was intended to put a stop to the British urge to expand and to protect the remaining areas of Acadia from British influence.
Numerous Acadian settlers had already settled in these areas before the British occupation of Acadia in 1710 . In the first half of the 18th century, more Acadian migrants followed in order to evade British rule. When the first fighting of the French and Indian War began during the year 1754 , the isthmus of Chignecto became a focal point of the military conflict: at the beginning of June British troops began an attack on Fort Beauséjour, which they attacked after a two-week siege on March 16 Taken June 1755.
literature
- Ingo Kolboom, Roberto Mann: Acadia: A French Dream in America - Four Centuries of History and Literature of the Acadians . Synchron Wissenschaftsverlag der Authors, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-935025-54-8
- Meyer's Continents and Seas - North America , Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim 1970, ISBN 3-411-01166-1
- Francis Parkman: Montcalm and Wolfe (Vol. 1) . - Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1885 <reprinted 1969>
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Coordinates: 45 ° 51 '52.3 " N , 64 ° 17' 29.1" W.