THE MOHAWKS

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The Mohawks, under leaders like Joseph Brant, were a significant group of indigenous people who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolution. Many lost their lands in the Mohawk Valley of New York and moved to Canada as refugees.  At Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia is a monument that demonstrates this connection to the British had gone on for many years prior to that time.


   Annapolis Royal Monument with Plaque

Some Mohawk served with the British at Annapolis Royal against the French and their allies between 1712 and 1713.    The plaque on the Monument states: 

Iroquois at Annapolis Royal

In 1712, two years after the British captured the Acadian capital, Colonel John Livingston returned to New York with about 50 men recruited among the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, also known as the League of Five Nations. During the last months of the War of the Spanish Succession (1702- 1713) these men carried out scouting duties and prevented attacks on the garrison of Annapolis Royal by French troops and their Mi’kmaw, Wolastok’qew (Maliseet), and Abenaki allies. The Iroquois company also built a small fort near here, before being disbanded in the spring of 1713.    


 




 Additional Reading:

The Mohawk Fort at Annapolis Royal by Brian McConnell, UE

                 

Historian & Author, Member of United Empire Loyalists ' Association of Canada

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