FORT CUMBERLAND
On 28 November 1776 HMS Vulture arrived at the head of the Bay of Fundy with British marines aboard to relieve Fort Cumberland which had been beseiged since earlier in the month. A force of American militia, natives, and some Nova Scotians, led by Jonathan Eddy, tried to capture the Fort as the precursor to the start of a rebellion in the colony and eventual attack on Halifax. Eddy had settled in Nova Scotia as a New England Planter and was one of a few members of the General Assembly in Halifax sympathetic to the American Revolution. The attack is described in The Siege of Fort Cumberland, 1776 - An Episode in the American Revolution authored by Ernest Clarke, UE, a former Vice - President of the Halifax / Dartmouth branch of the United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada. The book was published by McGill - Queen's University Press in 1995. Book published by Ernest Clarke, UE In this book Ernest Clarke, UE, "examines the attitudes of the vario...