Fort Vieux Logis The site of Fort Vieux Logis is in present - day Hortonville , Nova Scotia , Canada ( formerly part of Grand Pre ) and was built during Father Le Loutre ' s War . The fort was created to help prevent the Acadian Exodus from the region . The site of the fort is on the field where the Acadian Cross and the New England Planters monument are located . Despite archeological efforts , the exact location of the fort is unknown . Father Le Loutre ’ s War . Despite the British Conquest of Acadia in 1710 , Nova Scotia remained primarily occupied by Catholic Acadians and Mi ' kmaq . Father Le Loutre ' s War began when Edward Cornwallis arrived to establish Halifax with 13 transports on June 21 , 1749 . By unilaterally establishing Halifax the British were violating earlier treaties with the Mi ' kmaq ( 1726 ) , which were signed after Father Rale ' s War . The British quickly began to build other settlements . To guard against Mi ' kmaq , Acadian and French attacks on the new Protestant settlements , British fortifications were erected in Halifax ( 1749 ) , Bedford ( Fort Sackville ) ( 1749 ) , Dartmouth ( 1750 ) , Lunenburg ( 1753 ) and Lawrencetown ( 1754 ) . Within 18 months of establishing Halifax , the British also took firm control of peninsula Nova Scotia by building fortifications in all the major Acadian communities : present - day Windsor ( Fort Edward ) ; Grand Pre ( Fort Vieux Logis ) and Chignecto ( Fort Lawrence ) . ( A British fort already existed at the other major Acadian centre of Annapolis Royal , Nova Scotia . Cobequid remained without a fort . ) Initially in 1749 , Fort Vieux Logis did not have a barracks . Instead , it simply was three vacated Acadian homes with a fence around them . Siege of Grand Pre . On November 27 , 1749 , 300 of the Wabanaki Confederacy ( Mi ' kmaq , Maliseet ) and Acadians attacked the British Fort Vieux Logis . The fort was under the command of Captain Handfield . While surveying the fort ' s environs , Lieutenant John Hamilton and eighteen soldiers under his command were captured . After the British soldiers were captured , the native and Acadian militias made several attempts over the next week to lay siege to the fort before breaking off the engagement . Gorham ’ s Rangers was sent to relieve the fort . When he arrived the militia had already departed with the prisoners . The prisoners spent several years in captivity before being ransomed . In 1750 , six British soldiers tried to desert the fort . Cornwallis ordered them to death . Two of them were shot . Three of them were hanged and their bodies left to hang in chains . The first raid raid on Halifax happened in October 1750 , while in the woods on peninsular Halifax , Mi ' kmaq scalped two British people and took six prisoner : Cornwallis ' gardener , his son were tortured and scalped . The Mi ' kmaq buried the son while the gardener ' s body was left behind . Cornwallis presumed the other six prisoners were also killed until five months later he discovered they were being held prisoner at Grand Pre . In response , Cornwallis had soldiers from Fort Vieux Logis take ransom the local priest until the six British prisoners were released . November 1 , 1753 , Captain Cox was the commander of Fort Vieux Logis . References . Texts Endnotes