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

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1747.] CAPITULATION. 197hav<strong>in</strong>g been left, with other necessaries, on board theschooner <strong>and</strong> sloop now <strong>in</strong> the h<strong>and</strong>s <strong>of</strong> the French.It was found, on exam<strong>in</strong>ation, that they had ammunitionfor eight shots each, <strong>and</strong> provisions for oneday. Water was only to be had by br<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong>g it froma neighbor<strong>in</strong>g brook. As there were snow-shoes foronly about one man <strong>in</strong> twenty, sorties were out <strong>of</strong> thequestion; <strong>and</strong> the house was comm<strong>and</strong>ed by highground on three sides.Though their number was still considerable, theirposition was grow<strong>in</strong>g desperate. Thus it happenedthat when the truce expired, Goldthwait, the Englishcomm<strong>and</strong>er, with another <strong>of</strong>ficer, who seems to havebeen Capta<strong>in</strong> Preble, came with a white flag to thehouse where La Oorne was posted, <strong>and</strong> proposedterms <strong>of</strong> capitulation, Howe, who spoke French,act<strong>in</strong>g as <strong>in</strong>terpreter. La Corne made proposals onhis side, <strong>and</strong> as neither party was anxious to cont<strong>in</strong>uethe fray, they soon came to an underst<strong>and</strong><strong>in</strong>g.It was agreed that with<strong>in</strong> forty-eight hours theEnglish should march for Annapolis with the honors<strong>of</strong> war; that the prisoners taken by the Frenchshould rema<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong> their h<strong>and</strong>s ; that the Indians, whohad been the onl}'- plunderers, should keep theplunder they had taken; that the English sick <strong>and</strong>wounded should be left, till their recovery, at theneighbor<strong>in</strong>g settlement <strong>of</strong> Rivifere-aux-Canards, protectedby a French guard, <strong>and</strong> that the Englishengaged <strong>in</strong> the affair at Gr<strong>and</strong> Pre should not beararms dur<strong>in</strong>g the next six months with<strong>in</strong> the district

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