I just discovered that this is going to happen:
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DeLancey's Brigade - Revolutionary War Re-enactors
We are excited to release the schedule for our upcoming commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of the 1776 Eddy Rebellion and Siege of Fort Cumberland.
Taking place on the weekend of August 7 – 9 in Tantramar, New Brunswick, our two-venue event will include our 18th century military encampment at Mount Whatley on the grounds of St. Mark’s Anglican Church, throughout the weekend. On Saturday between 11 & 3, we will participate in anniversary events at the Fort Beausejour – Fort Cumberland National Historic Site, staged in cooperation with Parks Canada.
See the complete schedule here: https://Delanceys.org/250/Cumberland.htm
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I will be there with bells on!!!
I'm a bit of a Seven Years War nerd, Fort Beausejour/Fort Cumberland National Historic Park is only 50 km from Moncton in Aulac NB. This fort has the distinction of being the site of not one but two seminal battles that helped to decide the future of Canada.
The Battle of Fort Beausejour (1755) was the only major victory by the British in the first year of the Seven Years War, and secured the borders of Nova Scotia. It was a necessary precondition to the Siege of Fortress Louisbourg.
The Battle of Fort Cumberland (1776) - the renamed Fort Beausejour, kept Nova Scotia (the 14th colony) firmly under British control during the Revolutionary War. Johnathon Eddy was a Yankee sympathizer who had a letter patent from George Washington authorizing the Capture of Fort Cumberland. A small company of British regulars in the fort supplemented by voluteers from the Sackville (NB) area were able to hold off the insurgents until help arrived from Halifax.