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Britain dispatches from Ireland two regiments under General Braddock, for whom Washington serves as aide-de-camp, in 1755.

The French and their native allies attack the Redcoats as they approach Fort Duquesne, initiating what is called the French and Indian War.

Braddock and most of his officers die in the battle, and Washington leads the survivors back to Virginia.

Britain in the same year deports en masse the French-speaking Acadians of Nova Scotia to the American colonies, because the Acadians are not observing the neutrality mandated by treaty.

The British disperse about seven thousand individuals, of a total population of eight thousand, among various colonial centers.

Many of these involuntary transplants congregate in Louisiana, becoming the ancestors of the modern Cajuns (from Acadians).

Captain Lewis goes with forty men to Remsheg, where he captures three families and burns several buildings.

Lewis returns to Fort Cumberland on August 26 with the Acadian male prisoners.

The fate of the women and children of the region is unknown.

Lieutenant Colonel John Winslow arrives in Grand-Pré with three hundred and fifteen troops and takes up headquarters in the church on August 18, 1755, eight days after the Acadians are imprisoned at Chignecto.

Captain Thomas Lewis, Abijah Willard and two hundred and fifty troops, under orders from Monckton, begin on August 15, to destroy two villages in Cobequid: Tatamagouche and Remsheg (present-day Wallace, Nova Scotia).

The British have chosen to destroy these villages first in the expulsion because they are the gateway Acadians use to provide cattle and produce to Louisbourg.

To this end, Willard assembles the men of Tatamagouche in an Acadian home.

He ensures that all the guns in the village are confiscated, then notifies the Acadian men that they are being taken prisoner.

Willard immediately begins to destroy the shipments of Acadian cattle and produce that are on vessels to be sent to Louisbourg.

Lewis burns twelve homes and the chapel on August 16; Willard continues to burn four houses and several barns in the early morning of August 17.

The first wave of the expulsion of the Acadians begins in the region of Chignecto after the fall of Fort Beauséjour.

Under the direction of Colonel Robert Monckton, on August 10, Lieutenant-Colonel John Winslow seizes four hundred unsuspecting Acadian men who are at Fort Cumberland (formerly Fort Beauséjour).

Winslow also imprisons eighty-six Acadians within Fort Lawrence.

The number of prisoners is one third of the men of the region; many of the others flee the region.

The prisoners are kept in the fort until transports arrived to deport them.

Their wives and children join them upon departure.

When Boishébert receives word that the British are planning an expedition to the Petitcodiac River, he hurries to Chipoudy, where he organizes one hundred and twenty Acadians, Maliseets and Mi'kmaq into a guerrilla fighting force.

During the Bay of Fundy Campaign on August 28, Monckton sends Major Joseph Frye with an expedition of two hundred provincial militia from Fort Cumberland in two armed sloops, with instructions to clear Acadians settlements on the Petitcodiac River.

After setting the buildings on fire at Shepody, New Brunswick, they begin moving up the river, torching settlements and taking prisoners along the way.

...stretches around to Petite Rivière (Walton, Nova Scotia) on the south shore of the Cobequid Bay, and ...

...Five Islands, Nova Scotia on the north shore.

Lewis discovers that the rest of Cobequid is vacant.

Most of those in the region, such as Noël Doiron, had already vacated their farms over the previous five years and made their way to Ile Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island).

From September 23rd to 29th, Lewis lays waste to the countryside with fire.

The Grand Prè area's four hundred and eighteen Acadian males (age ten and older) of the area are ordered inside the church Saint-Charles-des-Mines on September 5, where they are unexpectedly imprisoned; they will remain so for five weeks.

Winslow informs them that all but their personal goods are to be forfeited to the Crown, and that they and their families are to be deported as soon as ships arrive to take them away.

The wives are ordered to feed and clothe both the prisoners and the troops.

Six days after the initial imprisonment, Winslow, fearing Acadian rebellion, moves two hundred and thirty prisoners on board ships to await deportation.