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====Acadian Civil War====
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[[File:Madame La Tour Defending Fort St.Jean.jpg|thumb|Siege of [[Saint John, New Brunswick|Saint John]] (1645) – d'Aulnay defeats La Tour in Acadia]]

From 1640 to 1645, Acadia was plunged into what some historians have described as a civil war.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}} The war was between Port Royal, where the Governor of Acadia [[Charles de Menou d'Aulnay]] de Charnisay was stationed, and present-day [[Saint John, New Brunswick]], where Governor of Acadia [[Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour]] was stationed.<ref>{{cite book|last=MacDonald|first=M.A.|title=Fortune & La Tour: the Civil War in Acadia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8gYVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP1|year=1983|publisher=Methuen|isbn=9780458958009}}</ref> There were four major battles in the war, and d'Aulnay ultimately prevailed over La Tour.