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—1745.] ARIklY AND NAVY. 139been successful without the other. Warren and hisofficers, in a council of war, had determined that solong as the Island Battery and the water batteries ofthe town remained in an efficient state, the shipscould not enter the harbor; and Warren had personallyexpressed the same opinion.^ He did notmean to enter till all the batteries which had madethe attempt impracticable, including the CircularBattery, which was the most formidable of all, hadbeen silenced or crippled by the army, and by thearmy alone. The whole work of the siege fell uponthe land forces ;and though it had been proposed tosend a body of marines on shore, this was not done.^Three or four gunners, " to put your men in the wayof loading cannon, "^ was Warren's contribution tothe operations of the siege ;though the fear of attack1 Report of Consultation on hoard the " Superbe," 7 June, 1745." Commodore Warren did say publickly that before the CircularBattery was reduced he would not venture in here with three timesye sea force he had with him, and, through divine assistance, wetore that [battery] and this city almost to pieces."Shirley, 4 July, 1745.Pepperrellto2 Warren had no men to spare. He says :" If it should bethought necessary to join your troops with any men from our ships,it should only be done for some sudden attack that may be executedin one day or night." — Warren to Pepperrell,ll May, 1745.No such occasion arose.3 Ibid., 13 ^fay, 1745. On the nineteenth of May, 1746, Warrenmade a parting speech to the New England men at Louisbourg, inwhich he tells them that it was they who conquered the country, andexpresses the hope that should the French try to recover it, " thesame Spirit that induced you to make this Conquest will promptyou to protect it." See the speech in Beamish-Murdoch, ii. 100-102.