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

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168 DUG D'ANVILLE. [1746,1747.the disasters <strong>of</strong> D'Anville's fleet were due to aneglect <strong>of</strong> sanitary precautions or to deficient seamanship.Certa<strong>in</strong> it is that there were many <strong>in</strong> selfrighteousNew Engl<strong>and</strong> who would have held itimpious todoubt that God had summoned the pestilence<strong>and</strong> the storm to fight the battles <strong>of</strong> his modernIsrael.Undaunted by disastrous failure, the French courtequipped another fleet, not equal to that <strong>of</strong> D'Anville,yet still formidable, <strong>and</strong> placed it under La Jonquiere,for the conquest <strong>of</strong> Acadia <strong>and</strong> Louisbourg. LaJonquifere sailed from Rochelle on the tenth <strong>of</strong> May,1747, <strong>and</strong> on the fourteenth was met by an Englishfleet stronger than his own <strong>and</strong> comm<strong>and</strong>ed byAdmirals Anson <strong>and</strong> Warren. A fight ensued, <strong>in</strong>which, after brave resistance, the French were totallydefeated. Six ships-<strong>of</strong>-war, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g the flag-ship,were captured, with a host <strong>of</strong> prisoners, among whomwas La Jonquiere himself.^^ Relation du Combat rendu le 14 Mai (new style), parl'Escadre duRoy comm<strong>and</strong>ee par M. de la Jonquiere, <strong>in</strong> Le Canada Frangais, Supplementde Documents <strong>in</strong>€dits, 33. Newcastle to Shirley, 30 May,1747.

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