Aftermath
The battle was a stinging defeat for the British. Abbe Le Guerne wrote that it "made the English tremble more than all the cannons of Beausejour." For many of the provincial fighters this was their first experience with combat and over 50 percent of those who participated became casualties.
The battle was the first bright spot for the Acadians. Boishebert rescued thirty Acadian families and brought off several fields worth of crops and supplies. Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot's created an Acadian refugee camp known as "Camp de l’Espérance", on Beaubears Island near present-day Miramichi, New Brunswick. The Acadians also managed to reach camps Baie des Chaleurs and the Restigouche River. On the Restigouche River, Boishébert refugee camp was at Petit-Rochelle (present-day Pointe-à-la-Croix, Quebec). Boishebert also led Acadians against the British in the 1759 siege of Quebec.
The British would return three years later to destroy the village again for the final time in the Petitcodiac River Campaign (1758).
The site is now marked by a National Historic Sites and Monument plaque.
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