Point of Interest
Bloody Bridge at Jolicure
Street Address: Jolicure, NB
Although the British had captured and occupied Forts Beausejour and Gaspereau in 1755, they did not control much outside these fortifications. In 1759, a detachment consisting of a sergeant and three men from the Provincial Rangers and seven soldiers from the British 46th Regiment left Fort Cumberland on a wood cutting detail. They were ambushed by a force of French and Natives at what is now known as Bloody Bridge. Five of the British detachment were killed, scalped and stripped.