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The lands of the isthmus have very low elevation above sea level with a large portion comprising the Tantramar Marshes, as well as tidal rivers, mud flats, inland freshwater marshes, and mixed forest. Several prominent ridges rise above the surrounding low land and marshes along the Bay of Fundy shore, namely the Fort Lawrence Ridge (in Nova Scotia), the Aulac Ridge, the Sackville Ridge, and the Memramcook Ridge (in New Brunswick).
Prior to British control of present-day mainland Nova Scotia (after 1713), the isthmus was host to a growing Acadian farming community called Beaubassin. The isthmus became the location of the historic dividing line between the British colony of Nova Scotia and the French territory. French military forces established Fort Beausejour on the Aulac Ridge in 1749 in response to the British construction of an outpost called Fort Lawrence on the ridge immediately to the east - between the two ridges was a tidal stream called the Misaquash River which France generally accepted to be the boundary between the French and British territories, despite the fact that an official boundary had never been determined. France also constructed Fort Gaspereaux on the shores of the Northumberland Strait to effectively control travel on the isthmus.
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Fort Beausejour was renamed Fort Cumberland and replaced Fort Lawrence due to its substantial construction over the British post. The British forces set about burning the French villages at Beaubassin and rounded up the settlers as part of the 1755 Acadian expulsion. Following the war in 1763 the isthmus saw three 100,000 acre townships created which took the names of Amherst, Sackville and Cumberland. Early attempts to encourage New Englanders and retired military personnel from the war to take up residence in the area were not successful but between 1772- 1775 over twenty ships carried upwards of 1000 settlers from Yorkshire, England to the new townships.
The American Revolutionary War saw a semi-organized, yet unsuccessful, attempt by local guerillas and American forces to take Fort Cumberland and the Tantramar region in October and November 1776. The invaders were routed by British forces from Halifax and Windsor.