Fort Edward (Nova Scotia)
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Fort Edward is a National Historic Site of Canada in Windsor, Nova Scotia, and was built during Father Le Loutre's War. The British built the fort to help prevent the Acadian Exodus from the region. T
Fort Edward by Capt. John Hamilton (1753)
David Ben-Gurion, future prime minister of Israel, in his Jewish Legion uniform, 1918
Jewish Legion, Fort Edward, Nova Scotia (Yom Kippur, 1918) - Inset (Whole Image here)
Father Le Loutre's War
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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
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.
Edward Cornwallis, the Governor of Nova Scotia