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

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^;126 LOUISBOURG TAKEN. [1745.me just to treat them <strong>in</strong> like manner, <strong>and</strong> to punishthose who do otherwise <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong>fer any <strong>in</strong>sult to theprisoners who may fall <strong>in</strong>to your h<strong>and</strong>s."Capta<strong>in</strong> M' Donald, <strong>of</strong> the mar<strong>in</strong>es, carried thisletter to Duchambon under a flag-<strong>of</strong>-truce. Thoughfamiliar with the French language, he spoke to thegovernor through an <strong>in</strong>terpreter, so that theFrench<strong>of</strong>ficers present, who hitherto had only known that alarge ship had been taken, expressed to each otherwithout reserve their discouragement <strong>and</strong> dismaywhen they learned that the prize was no other thanthe "Vigilant." Duchambon replied to La Maisonfort'sletter that the Indians alone were answerablefor the cruelties <strong>in</strong> question, <strong>and</strong> that he would forbidsuch conduct for the future.The besiegers were now threatened by a newdangrer. We have seen that <strong>in</strong> the last summer theSieur Duvivier had attacked Annapolis.by ill-luck,Undauntedhe had gone to <strong>France</strong> to beg for help toattack it aga<strong>in</strong>; two thous<strong>and</strong> men were promisedhim, <strong>and</strong> <strong>in</strong> anticipation <strong>of</strong> their arrival the governor<strong>of</strong>Canada sent a body <strong>of</strong> French <strong>and</strong> Indians, underthe noted partisan Mar<strong>in</strong>, to meet <strong>and</strong> co-operatewith them.Mar<strong>in</strong> was ordered to wait at Les M<strong>in</strong>estill he heard <strong>of</strong> the arrival <strong>of</strong> the troops from <strong>France</strong>but he grew impatient, <strong>and</strong> resolved to attackAnnapolis without them.Accord<strong>in</strong>gly, he laid siegeto it with the six or seven hundred whites <strong>and</strong>1 De la Maisonfort a Duchambon, 18 Ju<strong>in</strong> (new style), 1745. Duchambona De la Maisonfort, 19 Ju<strong>in</strong> (new style), 1745.

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