Editing Nova Scotia (section)

====19th century====
[[File:John Christian Schetky, H.M.S. Shannon Leading Her Prize the American Frigate Chesapeake into Halifax Harbour (c. 1830).jpg|thumb|{{HMS|Shannon|1806|6}} leading the [[Capture of USS Chesapeake|captured]] {{USS|Chesapeake|1799|6}} into [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]] during the [[War of 1812]]]]

During the [[War of 1812]], Nova Scotia's contribution to the British war effort involved communities either purchasing or building various privateer ships to attack U.S. vessels.<ref>{{cite book |last=Boileau |first=John |title=Half-Hearted Enemies: Nova Scotia, New England and the War of 1812 |location=Halifax |publisher=Formac Publishing |year=2005 |page=53 |isbn=9780887806575}}</ref> Perhaps the most dramatic moment in the war for Nova Scotia occurred when {{HMS|Shannon|1806|6}} escorted the captured American frigate {{USS|Chesapeake|1799|6}} into [[Halifax Harbour]] in 1813. Many of the U.S. prisoners were kept at [[Deadman's Island (Nova Scotia)|Deadman's Island]].

Nova Scotia became the first colony in [[British North America]] and in the [[British Empire]] to achieve [[responsible government]] in January–February 1848 and become [[self-governing colony|self-governing]] through the efforts of [[Joseph Howe]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Joseph Howe: The Briton Becomes Canadian, 1848–1873 |last=Beck |first=James Murray |year=1982 |volume=2 |location=Kingston & Montreal |publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press |isbn=0-7735-0388-9}}</ref> Nova Scotia had established [[Representative democracy|representative government]] in 1758, an achievement later commemorated by the erection of [[Sir Sandford Fleming Park|Dingle Tower]] in 1908.

Nova Scotians fought in the [[Crimean War]] of 1853–1856.<ref name="MagocsiOntario1999poiujm">{{cite book |editor-last=Magocsi |editor-first=Paul R. |title=Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples |year=1999 |publisher=Multicultural History Society of Ontario |isbn=978-0-8020-2938-6 |page=165}}</ref> The 1860 [[Sebastopol Monument|Welsford-Parker Monument]] in Halifax is the second-oldest war monument in Canada and the only Crimean War monument in North America. It commemorates the [[Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855)|1854–55 Siege of Sevastopol]].

[[File:Inauguration of the Welsford-Parker Monument, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 17 July 1860 - restored.jpg|thumb|right|Inauguration of the [[Sebastopol Monument]] in 1860. The monument was built to honour Nova Scotians who fought in the [[Crimean War]].]]

Thousands of Nova Scotians fought in the [[American Civil War]] (1861–1865), primarily on behalf of the [[Union (American Civil War)|North]].<ref name="Marquis, Greg 1998">
Marquis, Greg. ''In Armageddon's Shadow: The Civil War and Canada's Maritime Provinces''. McGill-Queen's University Press. 1998.</ref> The British Empire (including Nova Scotia) [[s:British proclamation of neutrality in the American Civil War|declared itself neutral]] in the conflict. As a result, Britain (and Nova Scotia) continued to trade with both the [[Confederate States of America|South]] and the North. Nova Scotia's economy boomed during the Civil War.