Sack of Lunenburg National Historic Event
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Sack of Lunenburg
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Address :
Falkland Street and Victoria Road, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Recognition Statute:
Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date:
1950-05-31
Other Name(s):
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Sack of Lunenburg
(Designation Name)
Importance:
American privateers looted the town in 1782
Plaque(s)
Existing plaque: Victoria Park Falkland Street and Victoria Road., Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
On 1st July, 1782, while most of its men were absent, the Town of Lunenburg was invaded by a fleet of six sail from Boston, in reprisal for capture of the Brig "Sally" in 1780. After taking the eastern blockhouse with its defenders Colonel Creighton and five men, and occupying the western defences, the invaders then plundered the King's stores at the foot of King street, the shops, and principal houses. They prevented the county militia, assembled under Major Pernette on the hill behind the Town, from attacking them by exacting a promissory note of 1000 pounds as ransom and by threatening to burn the Town.