1749–1755 - Anglo-Mi’kmaq War

In response to General Cornwallis’ brutal scalping proclamation, the Mi’kmaq declared war on the British in the fall of 1749. The subsequent conflict was also known as Father Le Loutre’s War, after the French priest who led joint Mi’kmaq and Acadian militia in their fight for the region. The most notorious of the raids carried out against the English took place in May 1751, when an Acadian named Josheph Broussard led sixty Mi’kmaq and Acadian forces from Chignecto in an attack on Dartmouth, resulting in twenty British casualties. After nearly six years of open conflict, the war ended in June 1755, following a decisive British victory at Fort Beauséjour.

Grenier, John. The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814. Cambridge University Press, 2005, 82.