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A half-century of conflict. France and England in North America. Part ...

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124 LOUISBOURG TAKEN. [1745.whose ammunition <strong>and</strong> provisions had sunk perilouslylow. The French prize now supplied their needs,<strong>and</strong> drew from the Habitant de Louisbourg the mournfulcomment, " We were victims devoted to appeasethe wrath <strong>of</strong> Heaven, which turned our own arms<strong>in</strong>to weapons for our enemies."Nor was this the last time when the defenders <strong>of</strong>Louisbourg supplied the <strong>in</strong>struments <strong>of</strong> their owndestruction ;at low tide from the flatsfor ten cannon were presently unearthednear the careen<strong>in</strong>g wharf <strong>in</strong>the northeast arm <strong>of</strong> the harbor, where they had beenhidden by the French some time before. Most <strong>of</strong>them proved sound; <strong>and</strong> be<strong>in</strong>g mounted at LighthousePo<strong>in</strong>t, they were turned aga<strong>in</strong>st their lateowners at the Isl<strong>and</strong> Battery.When Gorham's regiment first took post at LighthousePo<strong>in</strong>t, Duchambon thought the movement sothreaten<strong>in</strong>g that he forgot his former doubts, <strong>and</strong>ordered a sortie aga<strong>in</strong>st it, under the Sieur deBeaubass<strong>in</strong>. Beaubass<strong>in</strong> l<strong>and</strong>ed, with a hundredmen, at a place called Lorembec, <strong>and</strong> advanced tosurprise the English detachment ;but was discoveredby an outpost <strong>of</strong> forty men, who attacked <strong>and</strong> routedhis party. ^ Be<strong>in</strong>g then jo<strong>in</strong>ed by eighty Indians,Beaubass<strong>in</strong> had several other skirmishes with Englishscout<strong>in</strong>g-parties, till, pushed by superior numbers,<strong>and</strong> their leader severely wounded, his men rega<strong>in</strong>edLouisbourg by sea,escap<strong>in</strong>g with difficulty from the1 Journal <strong>of</strong> the Siege, appended to Shirley's report. Pomeroy,Journal.

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