Further, the company was involved in the establishment of Fort Sackville (Nova Scotia) and Fort Edward (Nova Scotia). After John Gorham's death in 1751, command of the unit went to his brother, Lieutenant Joseph Gorham. In 1750, at least six independent companies of rangers were organized in Nova Scotia, all modeled on Gorham's Rangers, although they contained mainly Anglo-Americans recruited in New England. The rangers at this point were described wearing coats of blue broadcloth. However, in 1755 a French intelligence report described Gorham's company as wearing "grey, cross pocket, with small leather caps or hats. In fact, the company had very different uniforms depending on the time period in question. For more on the uniforms worn and equipment used by the company throughout its nineteen-year history, click here . No contemporary images of Gorham's Rangers are known to exist. During the Seven Years' War, now led by Joseph Gorham, the company not only played an important role in fighting in Nova Scotia, but it also participated in many of the important campaigns of the war. Throughout 1755 to 1760, when not assigned elsewhere, they were central players in Britain's efforts to subdue a low-level insurgency in Nova Scotia, fought by the Mi'kmaq Indians as well as Acadian rebels. The rangers also took an active part in the Acadian Removals (1755-1760), a large scale ethnic cleansing operation in which British forces rounded up and deported virtually the entire Catholic French-speaking Acadian population from the Canadian Maritimes in order to open the colony to Protestant settlers after 1760. They also took part in the assault of Fort Beaujesour in 1755. In 1757, at the end of July, the company scouted French-occupied Louisbourg in anticipation of Lord Loudoun's (aborted) attack on the fortress. Gorham's men dressed as Acadian fisherman and sailed a captured fishing vessel rechristened "His Majesty's Schooner "Monckton"" directly into the harbor at night. Eventually an enemy warship fired on them, but the intelligence they gathered, about the arrival of a French fleet and reinforcements, was the deciding factor in Loudoun abandoning the assault. They played an important role in the initial amphibious assault at the outset of the second siege of Louisbourg in 1758, and were vital in the "petite guerre" and scorched-earth operations that took place around the periphery of the siege of Quebec in 1759.