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

130 LOUISBOURG TAKEN. [1745.under cover of night to repair the mischief; closedthe shattered West Gate with a wall of stone andearth twenty feet thick, made an epaulement to protectwhat was left of the formidable Circular Battery,— all but three of whose sixteen guns had been dismounted,— stopped the throat of the Dauphin'sBastion wdth a barricadeof stone, and built a cavalier,or raised battery, on the King's Bastion,— where,however, the English fire soon ruined it. Againstthat near and peculiarly dangerous neighbor, theadvanced battery, or, as they called it, the Batteriede Francceur^ they planted three heavy cannon to takeit in flank. "These," says Duchambon, "produceda marvellous effect, dismounted one of the cannon ofthe Bastonnais, and damaged all their embrasures, —which," concludes the governor, "did not preventthem from keeping up a constant fire; and theyrepaired by night the mischief we did them byday."iPepperrell and Warren at length came to an understandingas to a joint attack by land and water. TheIsland Battery was by this time crippled, and thetown batteries that commanded the interior of theharbor were nearly destroyed. It was agreed thatWarren, whose squadron was now increased byrecent arrivals to eleven ships, besides the provincialcruisers, should enter the harbor with the first fairwind, cannonade the town and attack it in boats,while Pepperrell stormed it from the land side.^ Duchamhon au Ministre, 2 Septemhre, 1745.