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Fort Beausejour (or Fort Cumberland). Fort Cumberland National Historic Site, located approximately eight kilometres east of the town of Sackville on a ridge overlooking the Tantramar Marshes in Aulac, New Brunswick, Canada and is famous for the Battle of Fort Beausejour, which was both the final act in the long fight between Britain and France for control of Acadia and the opening act of the final struggle between the two great empires for North America itself. The fort was renamed Fort Cumberland by the British and was involved in the Battle of Fort Cumberland during the opening stages of the American Revolution. The British troops began construction of a palisade fort near the site of the ruined Acadian village of Beaubassin on Sept 1750. It overlooked the Missaguash River, which they believed to be the historic dividing line between Acadia and Nova Scotia following the Treaty of Utrecht. The work on the fort proceeded rapidly and the facility was completed within weeks. **untouched I took a few photos of the fort on a visit, I'll be posting more over the next few days. This is a partial view (partial bc you can see 360 degrees from this point).