France and England in North America, Part VII, Vol 2: A Half-Century of ConflictParkman, Francis
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France and England in North America, Part VII, Vol 2: A Half-Century of Conflict
Parkman, Francis
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
[264] The note was as follows: “August 20 [31, new style],
1746. These are to inform you that yesterday, about 9 of the
clock, we were besieged by, as they say, seven hundred
French and Indians. They have wounded two men and killed one
Knowlton. The General de Vaudreuil desired capitulations,
and we were so distressed that we complied with his terms.
We are the French’s prisoners, and have it under the
general’s hand that every man, woman, and child shall be
exchanged for French prisoners.”
[265] _Journal de Rigaud._
[266] Kalm also describes the fort and its tower. Little trace
of either now remains. Amherst demolished them in 1759, when
he built the larger fort, of which the ruins still stand on
the higher ground behind the site of its predecessor.
[267] Of the twenty-two men in the fort when attacked, one,
Knowlton, was killed by a bullet; one, Reed, died just after
the surrender; ten died in Canada, and ten returned home.
_Report of Sergeant Hawks._
[268] _N. Y. Col Docs._, x. 147.
APPENDIX. 257
A.
CHAPTER XVII. ENGLAND HAS NO RIGHTFUL TITLES TO NORTH AMERICA, EXCEPT
THOSE WHICH MAY BE GRANTED HER BY FRANCE.
_Second Mémoire concernant les limites des Colonies presenté en
1720, par Bobé prêtre de la congregation de la Mission. à
Versailles._ Archives Nationales.
(_Extracts, printed literatim._)
“L’année Dernier 1719 je presenté un Memoire Concernant les
prétensions reciproques de la grande bretagne et de la france par
Raport aux Colonies des deux Nations dans L’Amerique, et au Reglement
des limites des dites Colonies.
“Je ne repete pas ce que j’ay dit dans ce memoire, je prie seulement
que l’on pese bien tout ce que j’y dis pour Aneantir les prétensions
des Anglois, et pour les Convaincre, s’ils veullent être de bonne foy,
qu’elles sont des plus mal fondées, trés Exorbitantes, et mêmes
injustes, qu’ayant usurpé sur La france presque tout ce qu’ils
possedent en Amerique, ils deveroient luy rendre au lieu de luy
demander, et qu’ils deveroient estimer Comme un tres grand avantage
pour Eux, la Compensation que j’y propose pour finir cette affaire,
laqu’elle, sans cette Compensation, renaitra toujours jusqu’a ce 258
qu’enfin la france soit rentrée en paisible possession de tout ce qui
luy appartient légitimement, et dont on ne L’a depoüilleé que par la
force et La malheureuse Conjoncture des tems, qui sans doute tôt ou
tard luy seront plus favorables.
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