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

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;132 LOUISBOURG TAKEN. [1745.Lattery, wrote <strong>in</strong> his diary: "By 12 o'clock we hadgot all our platforms laid, embrazures mended, guns<strong>in</strong> order, shot <strong>in</strong> place, cartridges ready, d<strong>in</strong>ed, gunnersquartered, matches lighted to return their lastfavours,when we heard their drums beat a parley;<strong>and</strong> soon appeared a flug <strong>of</strong> truce, which I receivedmidway between our battery <strong>and</strong> their walls, conductedthe <strong>of</strong>ficer to Green Hill, <strong>and</strong> delivered himto Colonel Richman [Richmond]."La Perelle, the French <strong>of</strong>ficer, delivered a notefrom Duchambon, directed to both Pepperrell <strong>and</strong>Warren, <strong>and</strong> ask<strong>in</strong>g for a suspension <strong>of</strong> arms toenable him to draw up proposals for capitulation. ^Warren chanced to be on shore when the note came<strong>and</strong> the two comm<strong>and</strong>ers answered jo<strong>in</strong>tly that ithad come <strong>in</strong> good time, asthey had just resolved ona general attack, <strong>and</strong> that they would give the governortill eight o'clock <strong>of</strong> the next morn<strong>in</strong>g to makehis proposals. 2They came <strong>in</strong> due time, but were <strong>of</strong> such a naturethat Pepperrell refused to listen to them, <strong>and</strong> sentback Bonaventure, the <strong>of</strong>ficer who brought them,with counter-proposals. These were the terms whichDuchambon had rejected on the seventh <strong>of</strong> May,with added conditions; as, among others, that no<strong>of</strong>ficer, soldier, or <strong>in</strong>habitant <strong>of</strong> Louisbourg shouldbear arms aga<strong>in</strong>st the K<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> Engl<strong>and</strong> or any <strong>of</strong> hisallies for the space <strong>of</strong> a year. Duchambon stipulated,1 Duchambon a Pepperrell et Warren, 26 Ju<strong>in</strong> (new 8tyle), 1746.* Warren <strong>and</strong> Pepperrell to Duchambon, 16 June, 1745.

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