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Grand-Pré

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Grand-Pré may refer to:

  • Carlos de Grand Pré, governor of the West Florida in 1805 and of the Natchez District
  • Grand-Pré National Historic Site, a park set aside to commemorate the Grand-Pré area of Nova Scotia as a centre of Acadian settlement from 1682 to 1755
  • Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia, a Canadian rural community in Kings County, Nova Scotia
  • Grandpré, Ardennes, France
  • Raid on Grand Pré, the major action of a raiding expedition conducted by New England militia Colonel Benjamin Church against French Acadia in June 1704, during Queen Anne's War
  • Battle of Grand Pré, also known as the Battle of Minas, a battle in King George's War in the winter of 1747 during the War of the Austrian Succession
  • Siege of Grand Pre, a 1749 conflict during Father Le Loutre's War between the British and the Wabanaki Confederacy and Acadians

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