Lieutenant-General Edward Cornwallis was a British Army officer and member of the aristocratic Cornwallis family. After Cornwallis fought in Scotland, putting down the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, he w
Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1756
Cornwallis built Governor's House (1749). (Province House was later also built on this site and it is furnished still with his Nova Scotia Council table.)
The table first used by Edward Cornwallis and the Nova Scotia Council (1749), The Red Chamber of Province House
Fort Edward, named after Edward Cornwallis
Father Le Loutre's War, also known as the Indian War, the Mi'kmaq War and the Anglo-Mi'kmaq War, took place in the years between King George's War and the French and Indian War in Acadia and Nova Scot
Edward Cornwallis
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Lieutenant-General Peregrine Lascelles, Commander 47th Regiment
Richard Bulkeley, the Lieutenant Governors of Nova Scotia noted that Nova Scotia "was kept in an uninterrupted state of war by the Acadians."
Father Jean-Louis Le Loutre led the Acadian Exodus, an event that saw half of the Acadian population in the Acadian peninsula relocate to French-controlled territories further inland.