Lieutenant Meech of Benoni Danks’ Rangers, along…
June 1758 CE
They make contact with forty Acadians but are unable to catch them.
The Petitcodiac is situated between two smaller rivers—the Shepody River (off Shepody Bay) and the Memramcook river (the three bodies of water are often called "Trois-Rivières" by its inhabitants.)
Weeks after the Expulsion of the Acadians began with the Bay of Fundy Campaign (1755), the British forces had raided villages at Chipoudy and Petitcodiac (Hillsborough, New Brunswick).
As well, on November 17, 1755, George Scott with seven hundred troops had attacked twenty houses at Memramcook (Dorchester, New Brunswick), arresting the Acadians that remained and killing two hundred head of livestock.
Even after these raids, Acadians had 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 had been ordered to take part in an eight-hundred man joint force of rangers and regulars to march against Chipoudy, which seemed to be the originating point for the Acadian and Mi’kmaq raids on Chignecto.
Almost seven months later, on March 28, 1758, Gorham’s Rangers had 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.
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Andrew Rollo, 5th Lord Rollo
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George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe
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