Qualla: Fort Nashwaak https://qualla.com/fort-nashwaak en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:18 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/f/8/0/t/fort-nashwaak-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Fort Nashwaak https://qualla.com/fort-nashwaak Fort Nashwaak: Introduction https://qualla.com/fort-nashwaak/ Photo credit Mynewbrunswick, CC BY-SA 3.0. For nearly a decade at the end of the 17th century, the capital of Acadia was not a coastal settlement or a fortified port but a wooden fort on the Nashwaak River, deep in the interior of what is now New Brunswick. Fort Nashwaak -- also known as Fort Naxoat or Fort St. Joseph -- stood where the Nashwaak flows into the Saint John River, positioned to command the waterway and to maintain contact with the nearby Maliseet village at Fort Meductic. From this remote outpost, the Governor of Acadia launched raids that terrorized the New England frontier and defended against British retaliation. Today, a monument on the site marks a National Historic Site of Canada designated in 1924, but the fort itself vanished long ago, claimed by a flood shortly after its abandonment in 1700.

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/f/8/0/t/fort-nashwaak-wp/f80t-fort-nashwaak-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Fort Nashwaak: A Capital in Retreat https://qualla.com/fort-nashwaak/ Photo credit Mynewbrunswick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Fort Nashwaak owed its existence to defeat. In 1690, during King William's War, the British captured Port Royal, Acadia's traditional capital on the Bay of Fundy. Governor Joseph de Villebon needed a new seat of government, one that was harder for the British to reach by sea. He ...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/f/8/0/t/fort-nashwaak-wp/f80t-fort-nashwaak-a-capital-in-retreat.mp3 0:06 2 full Fort Nashwaak: Raids on the New England Border https://qualla.com/fort-nashwaak/ Photo credit Mynewbrunswick, CC BY-SA 3.0. What Fort Nashwaak lacked in grandeur, it made up for in strategic utility. From its walls, de Villebon coordinated a campaign of raids against English settlements along the New England frontier, working closely with Abenaki and other First Nations allies who knew the forest trai...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/f/8/0/t/fort-nashwaak-wp/f80t-fort-nashwaak-raids-on-the-new-england-border.mp3 0:06 3 full Fort Nashwaak: The Siege That Failed https://qualla.com/fort-nashwaak/ Photo credit Mynewbrunswick, CC BY-SA 3.0. De Villebon's most significant military success came in 1696 with the Siege of Pemaquid, which destroyed an important English fort on the Maine coast. The British, stung by the loss, resolved to strike at the source. Later that year, they launched a siege against Fort Nashwaak it...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/f/8/0/t/fort-nashwaak-wp/f80t-fort-nashwaak-the-siege-that-failed.mp3 0:06 4 full Fort Nashwaak: The River Takes It Back https://qualla.com/fort-nashwaak/ Photo credit Mynewbrunswick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Governor de Villebon died in 1700, and without his leadership, the strategic rationale for maintaining such an isolated capital weakened. A devastating flood on the Saint John River finished what politics had begun, destroying much of the fort's structure and rendering the site u...

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