Nova Scotia in the American Revolution information
Nova Scotia theatre
Part of the American Revolutionary War
Naval battle off Halifax (1782)
Date
12 July 1775 – 5 September 1782
Location
Nova Scotia
Result
British victory
American forces driven from Nova Scotia
Belligerents
United Colonies (1775-1781) United States (1781-1782) Kingdom of France
Great Britain
Commanders and leaders
George Washington Jeremiah O'Brien John Paul Jones Jonathan Eddy Benoni Danks John Allan John Manley Hector McNeill Louis-René Levassor Noah Stoddard George Wait Babcock Herbert Woodbury William Williams Joseph Olney David Ropes † John Selman Nicholson Broughton Latouche Tréville
La Pérouse
Thomas Gage Sir William Howe John Creighton (POW) Dittlieb Jessen Joseph Pernette Phillips Callbeck (POW) Joseph Goreham Thomas Dixson Gilfred Studholme Michael Francklin George Collier John Brisbane Simeon Perkins Benjamin Belcher Jonathan Crane Phineas Lovett Jonathan Prescott
Captain Henry Francis Evans[1]† Captain Rupert George[2][3][4] Richard Peter Tonge (POW)
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American Revolution Nova Scotia theatre
Saint John
Charlottetown
Yarmouth 1st
Canso
Maugerville Rebellion
Fort Cumberland
Yarmouth 2nd
St. John River
Capture of USS Hancock
Liverpool
Raid on Miramichi
1st Halifax
Blomindon
Cape Breton
Annapolis Royal
Blonde Rock
2nd Halifax
Chester
Lunenburg
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American Revolutionary War Campaigns and theaters
Boston
Quebec
Nova Scotia
Northern
New York and New Jersey
Saratoga
Philadelphia
Northern after Saratoga
Western
Southern
Gulf Coast
Yorktown
Naval
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Northern coastal theater
Ridgefield
Sag Harbor
2nd Machias
Setauket
Mount Hope Bay
Newport
Grey's raid
Chestnut Neck
Little Egg Harbor
Tryon's raid (Norwalk, Fairfield)
Penobscot Expedition
Cape Split
Fort St. George
Annapolis Royal
Cape Ann
Groton Heights
Fort Slongo
Lunenburg
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Atlantic naval theatre
Nassau
Block Island
Turtle Gut Inlet
Barbados
Yarmouth
Capture of USS Hancock
Frederica
North Channel
Charles Town
1st Long Island
1st Cape Henry
Cape Split
Cape Breton
Capture of USS Trumbull
Cape Ann
1st Chesapeake
Capture of HMS Savage
1st Delaware Bay
Halifax
2nd Cape Henry
Hudson Bay
2nd Long Island
2nd Delaware Bay
Kedges Strait
3rd Delaware Bay
2nd Chesapeake Bay
The Province of Nova Scotia was heavily involved in the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). At that time, Nova Scotia also included present-day New Brunswick until that colony was created in 1784.[5] The Revolution had a significant impact on shaping Nova Scotia, "almost the 14th American Colony". At the beginning, there was ambivalence in Nova Scotia over whether the colony should join the Americans in the war against Britain. Largely as a result of American privateer raids on Nova Scotia villages, as the war continued, the population of Nova Scotia solidified their support for the British. Nova Scotians were also influenced to remain loyal to Britain by the presence of British military units, judicial prosecution by the Nova Scotia Governors and the efforts of Reverend Henry Alline.
^"Henry Francis Evans".
^"Sir Rupert George".
^Rupert George's Obituary - married in Halifax
^George Family, p. 8
^Hanc, John (5 June 2017). "When Nova Scotia Almost Joined the American Revolution". Smithsonian.
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Captain Henry Francis Evans[1] †