250th ANNIVERSAY OF SIEGE OF FORT CUMBERLAND
On August 8, 2026 a day of presentations and events was held at Fort Beausèjour National Historic Site near Amherst, Nova Scotia. The activities were organized to mark the 250th anniversary of the Eddy Rebellion and Siege of the Fort in November 1776 when it was called Fort Cumberland. Jonathon Eddy led a rebel force in an unsuccessful siege of the Fort that was garrisoned by Lieut. - Col. Joseph Goreham and members of the Royal Fencible American Regiment. As an historian interested in the American Revolution I attended. The present - day name of the site was selected by the Government of Canada to recognize that Fort Beausèjour was the name the French, who were the first Europeans to settle in the area, called it when constructed in 1751. British and American colonial forces captured the Fort on June 16, 1755 and renamed it Fort Cumberland. In 1920 the National Historic Site was designated there and it was renamed Fort Beausèjour. With historia...