Nova Scotia in the American Revolution

Nova Scotia theatre
Part of the American Revolutionary War
Naval battle off Halifax (1782)
Date 12 July 1775 – 5 September 1782 Location Nova Scotia Result British victory American forces driven from Nova Scotia
Belligerents
United Colonies (1775-1781) United States (1781-1782) Kingdom of France	Great Britain
Commanders and leaders
George Washington Jeremiah O'Brien John Paul Jones Jonathan Eddy Benoni Danks John Allan John Manley Hector McNeill Louis-René Levassor Noah Stoddard George Wait Babcock Herbert Woodbury William Williams Joseph Olney David Ropes † John Selman Nicholson Broughton Latouche Tréville La Pérouse	Thomas Gage Sir William Howe John Creighton (POW) Dittlieb Jessen Joseph Pernette Phillips Callbeck (POW) Joseph Goreham Thomas Dixson Gilfred Studholme Michael Francklin George Collier John Brisbane Simeon Perkins Benjamin Belcher Jonathan Crane Phineas Lovett Jonathan Prescott Captain Henry Francis Evans[1] † Captain Rupert George[2][3][4] Richard Peter Tonge (POW)

The Province of Nova Scotia was heavily involved in the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). At that time, Nova Scotia also included present-day New Brunswick until that colony was created in 1784.^[5] The Revolution had a significant impact on shaping Nova Scotia, "almost the 14th American Colony". At the beginning, there was ambivalence in Nova Scotia over whether the colony should join the Americans in the war against Britain. Largely as a result of American privateer raids on Nova Scotia villages, as the war continued, the population of Nova Scotia solidified their support for the British. Nova Scotians were also influenced to remain loyal to Britain by the presence of British military units, judicial prosecution by the Nova Scotia Governors and the efforts of Reverend Henry Alline.