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    Pisiguit is the pre-expulsion-period Acadian region located along the banks of the Pisiquit River from its confluence with the Minas Basin of Acadia, which...
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    Maine, Raid on St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Raid on Grand Pre, Raid on Pisiguit (present day Falmouth and Windsor), and the Raid on Chignecto. Church meticulously...
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    spread out along the bay, founding Grand-Pré, Beaubassin, Cobequid, and Pisiguit. There was much military action and many attacks on the settlements around...
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  • throughout the former North American colonies of France. Beaubassin Cobequid Pisiguit Port-Royal Grand-Pré Beauport Charlesbourg Kamouraska L'Assomption Montmagny...
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    orders from Cornwallis to march to Pisiguit (in present-day Windsor). Their mission was to establish a blockhouse at Pisiguit (i.e., Fort Edward), and to seize...
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    conduct the real purpose of his expedition: the Raid on Grand Pré, Raid on Pisiguit, and Raid on Chignecto. He returned to Port Royal and then with a brief...
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  • campaign against Acadia, Church also raided Castine, Maine, Grand Pré, and Pisiguit (present-day Windsor/Falmouth). The British took control of present-day...
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  • Royal, Nova Scotia, the Acadians were the first Europeans to settle in Pisiguit by the early 1680s. French census records dated 1686 list well established...
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  • Haché-Gallant of Beaubassin, and the family Pierre and Joseph Martine from Pisiguit. In 1721, Charles Haché-Gallant and his brother Pierre, settled also in...
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    (1985). The first Acadians to settle in present-day Hants County (known as Pisiguit) established farms at (present day Falmouth) in the early 1680s, as the...
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