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

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198 ACADIAN CONFLICTS. [1747.about the head <strong>of</strong> the Bay <strong>of</strong> Fi<strong>in</strong>dy, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>gChignecto, Gr<strong>and</strong> Pr^, <strong>and</strong> the neighbor<strong>in</strong>g settlements.Capta<strong>in</strong> Howe was released on parole, with thecondition that he should send back <strong>in</strong> exchange oneLacroix, a French prisoner at Boston,— "which,"says La Corne, "he faithfully did."Thus ended one <strong>of</strong> the most gallant exploits <strong>in</strong>French-Canadian annals. As respects the losses oneach side,the French <strong>and</strong> English accounts are irreconcilable;nor are the statements <strong>of</strong> either partyconsistent with themselves. Mascarene reports toShirley that seventy English were killed, <strong>and</strong> abovesixty captured;though he afterwards reduces thesenumbers, hav<strong>in</strong>g, as he says, received farther <strong>in</strong>formation.On the French side he says that four <strong>of</strong>ficers<strong>and</strong> about forty men were killed, <strong>and</strong> that manywounded were carried <strong>of</strong>f <strong>in</strong> carts dur<strong>in</strong>g the fight.Beaujeu, on the other h<strong>and</strong>, sets the English loss atone hundred <strong>and</strong> thirty killed, fifteenwounded, <strong>and</strong>fifty captured ; <strong>and</strong> the French loss at seven killed<strong>and</strong> fifteen wounded. As for the numbers engaged,the statements are scarcely less divergent. It seemsclear, however, that when Coulon began his marchfrom Baye Verte, his party consisted <strong>of</strong> about threehundred Canadians <strong>and</strong> Indians,without reckon<strong>in</strong>gsome Acadians who had jo<strong>in</strong>ed him from Beaubass<strong>in</strong><strong>and</strong> Isle St. Jean. Others jo<strong>in</strong>ed him on the way toGr<strong>and</strong> Pr^, count<strong>in</strong>g a hundred <strong>and</strong> fiftyaccord<strong>in</strong>gto Shirley, — which appears to be much too large an

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