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Beausejour2006
Beausejour or Beauséjour may refer to: Places *Beausejour, a district in Casablanca, Morocco *Beauséjour, the main settlement on the island of La Désirade, Guadeloupe *Beauséjour (electoral district), a federal electoral district in eastern New Brunswick, Canada *Beausejour, Manitoba, a town in Manitoba, Canada **Beausejour Blades, former ice hockey team in Beausejour *Beauséjour, Marne, a town in France, a scene of fighting during World War I *Beauséjour River, a river in Grenada *Beausejour Stadium, a cricket stadium located near Gros Islet, Saint Lucia *CFS Beausejour, former Canadian Forces Station *Fort Beauséjour, a National Historic Site located in Aulac, New Brunswick, Canada **Battle of Fort Beauséjour People *Henoc Beauséjour (born 1973), known by his stage name Roi Heenok, Canadian rapper, producer and entrepreneur *Jean Beausejour, a Chilean footballer *Madeleine Beauséjour, film editor and director from Réunion *Paul-Félix Beuvain de Beauséjour (1839†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Beauséjour
Fort Beauséjour (), renamed Fort Cumberland in 1755, is a large, five-bastioned fort on the Isthmus of Chignecto in eastern Canada, a neck of land connecting the present-day province of New Brunswick with that of Nova Scotia. The site was strategically important in Acadia, a French colony that included primarily the Maritimes, the eastern part of Quebec, and northern Maine of the later United States. The fort was built by the French from 1751 to 1752. They surrendered it to the British in 1755 after their defeat in the Battle of Fort Beauséjour, during the Seven Years' War. The British renamed the structure as Fort Cumberland. The fort was strategically important throughout the Anglo-French rivalry of 1749–63, known as the French and Indian Wars by British colonists. Less than a generation later, it was the site of the 1776 Battle of Fort Cumberland, when the British forces repulsed sympathisers of the American Revolution. Since 1920 the site has been designated as a National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
