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

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164 DUG D'ANVILLE. [1746.English prisoners were told that between twentythree<strong>and</strong> twenty-four hundred men had been buriedby sea or l<strong>and</strong> s<strong>in</strong>ce the fleet left <strong>France</strong> ;declares<strong>and</strong> anotherthat eleven hundred <strong>and</strong> thirty-five burialstook place while he was at Chibucto. ^The survivorsused the cloth<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> the dead as gifts to the neighbor<strong>in</strong>gIndians, who <strong>in</strong> consequence were attacked withsuch virulence by the disease that <strong>of</strong> the b<strong>and</strong> atCape Sable three fourths are said to have perished.The English, meanwhile, learned someth<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> thecondition <strong>of</strong> their enemies. Towards the end <strong>of</strong>September Capta<strong>in</strong> Sylvanus Cobb, <strong>in</strong>a sloop fromBoston, boldly entered Chibucto Harbor, took note<strong>of</strong> the ships ly<strong>in</strong>g there, <strong>and</strong>, though pursued, ran outto sea <strong>and</strong> carried the results <strong>of</strong> his observations toLouisbourg.2 A more thorough reconnoissance wasafterwards made by a vesselfrom Louisbourg br<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong>gFrench prisoners for exchange under a flag <strong>of</strong>truce; <strong>and</strong> it soon became evident that the Britishcolonies had now noth<strong>in</strong>g to fear.La Jonquiere still clung to the hope <strong>of</strong> a successfulstroke at Annapolis, till <strong>in</strong> October an Acadianbrought him the report that the garrison <strong>of</strong> thatplace had received a re<strong>in</strong>forcement <strong>of</strong> twelve hundredmen. The re<strong>in</strong>forcement consisted <strong>in</strong> reality <strong>of</strong> threesmall companies <strong>of</strong> militia sent from Boston byShirley. La Jonquiere called a secret council, <strong>and</strong>1746.1 Declaration <strong>of</strong> Kannan <strong>and</strong> Deas. Deposition <strong>of</strong> Joseph Foster.2 Report <strong>of</strong> Capta<strong>in</strong> Cobb, <strong>in</strong> Shirley to Newcastle, 13 October,

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