Fort Gaspareaux - Seven Years War

Seven Years War

During the Seven Years War (also known as the French and Indian War), immediately after the Battle of Fort Beauséjour in 1755, the British sent 300 men, led by Colonel John Winslow, to take Fort Gaspareaux, then under the command of Captain Villeray. This was quickly accomplished, and the fort was renamed Fort Monckton (after colonial administrator Robert Monckton) and put under the charge of an English garrison. In the spring of 1756, a wood gathering party from Fort Monckton (former Fort Gaspareaux), was ambushed and nine of them were scalped. These soldiers' remains are in a small military graveyard at the fort.The British abandoned the fort later in the same year, unable to defend it from a pending attack by French military leader Boishebert and a Mi'kmaq/Acadian militia.