Did you know that it was during the Seven Years' War that prisoners captured in New England were shipped here to Liverpool.

At that time England and France were engaged in a life and death struggle for supremacy in the New World, and military and naval struggles were carried out in many parts of the world from 1755 to 1763. It was a result of this war that the British government, at the request of the New Englanders, expelled the French Acadians from Nova Scotia. It appeared that as long as these people refused to take the Oath of Allegiance to Britain, they were a menace to then English colonies, by providing aid and comfort to the enemies of the Britain, the Mother country.

This episode in the history of Nova Scotia, made at the time, a deep impression upon the minds of the poet and historian, and a great deal of sympathy was felt by all who knew the story of their suffering. In fact, the poet Longfellow gained much fame for his poem Evangelize, which was published about the year 1817. Following the publication of the poem, the Nova Scotia Assembly ordered that "all of the documents relating to the matter be brought before the House, and the result was the publication, by authority, be placed in the Archives of Nova Scotia. The bulky volume may be seen in the Provincial or Federal libraries.

In the midst of the strife for power the immigrants were brought to Nova Scotia in the year 1760; following the capture of Louisburg in 1756, and Quebec in 1759. The various sections of Nova Scotia differ greatly in natural resources; it was therefore determined to bring from the fertile Connecticut Valley men used to tilling the soil, and the rich county of Kings was selected as the location, and the county of Kings was chosen as the location for the "Connecticut Planters", as this group was called. The County of Annapolis was picked for the people from Massachusetts, largely from the community of Lunenburg in that state.

Lastly, the colonists destined for settlement on the Mersey River, were drawn from Cape Cod, where the residents of that day made their living from the sea and the forests. Located on the Atlantic coast, Liverpool proved to be much more vulnerable than the inland settlements, and so from the first we find evidence of defensive measures taken by the pioneers. Colonels Simeon Perkins, Nathan Tupper, Joseph Tupper and others, are frequently referred to in annals of the settlement. The fitting out of a naval militia, under Letters of Marque, for aid to the Royal navy, was undertaken early in the history of the Township of Liverpool, and on at least on one occasion, the town ws captured by the enemy, but no lives were lost or serious damage done. The fort at the Point was built later.

Wars and rumors of war continued until the date of Waterloo (1815), when Liverpool was again put on the defensive. Then followed a period of Peace until the outbreak of the Crimean War, which was actually too far away to effect Liverpool except indirectly, when much money was in circulation due to demands made on the Province for chiefly forest products, but also of the farm and fisheries.

Then came the American Civil War, or preferably, the War Between the States. While Nova Scotia was not a participant in this war, she reaped a rich harvest in supplying food, timber, coal, to the belligerents, and many traded with the North or South.

Following the peace in 1865, it appeared as Liverpool was in for a quiet time. This, was not to be, for in 1866 the Fenian Raids in Upper and Lower Canada and the threat to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, led the government of the day to call out the Militia of all the counties, Queens included.

Fort Point again echoed to the marching of the guard, and the muster roll of all the Counties, and the muster rolls of the three Queens County regiments grew longer and longer. The danger passed however, and Liverpool settled down to nearly fifty years of peace, but not prosperity, for with peace came hard times, which led to the great migration of Nova Scotians, first to the United States of America, and then to the Canadian West and elsewhere.

Then, the Federal Government in Ottawa on the 1st Day of April, 1912, authorized a Bounty to Volunteers who served the Crown during the Fenian Raids. The Grant was for One Hundred Dollars, to every volunteer who was living on the date of the passing of the Act.

Some efforts were made during the latter part of the 19th and the early years of the 20th Century to train civilians to be soldiers. In the 80s, a battery of artillery was raised and did some training. Later a company of Infantry of the 68th regiment was raised and trained at Aldershot, Nova Scotia, under a Captain W.P Purney. The regiment had its headquarters at Kentville, N.S. and the other three companies were domiciled in King's County.

Men of the Liverpool Company under Captain Purney responded to the call to arms, and served in the Great War in the 25th, 85th and other units of the C.E.F., and the B.E.F.

This story brings the Military effort of Queens County men to August 1914.