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

;1746-1748.] THE FORT REBUILT. 255overlooked the ramparts, and answered in some sortto the donjon of a feudal castle, was a bomb-proofstructure in vaulted masonry, of the slaty blacklimestone of the neighborhood, three stories in height,and armed with nine or ten cannon, besidesnumber of patereroes, — a kind of pivot-gunlike a swivel.^a greatmuchIn due time the prisoners reached Montreal,whence they were sent to Quebec ; and in the courseof the next year those who remained alive were exchangedand returned to New England. ^Mrs. Smeadand her infant daughter " Captivity " died in Canada,and, by a singular fatality,her husband had scarcelyreturned home when he was waylaid and killedIndians.byFort Massachusetts was soon rebuilt by theprovince, and held its own thenceforth till the war wasover.Sergeant Hawks became a lieutenant-colonel,and took a creditable part in the last French war.For two years after the incursion of Rigaud theNew England borders were scourged with partisanwarfare, bloody, monotonous, and futile, with noevent that needs recording, and no result beyond amomentary check to the progress of settlement. Atlength, in July, 1748, news came that the chiefcon-^ Kalm also describes the fort and its tower. Little trace ofeither now remains. Amherst demolished them in 1759, when hebuilt the larger fort, of which the ruins still stand on the higherground behind the site of its predecessor.^ Of the twenty-two men in tlie fort when attacked, one, Knowlton,was killed by a bullet ; one. Reed, died just after the surrenderten died in Canada, and ten returned home. Bepon of SergeantHawks.