[92] Brown, _Cape Breton_, 183. Parsons, _Life of Pepperrell_, 103. An anonymous letter, dated Louisbourg, 4 July, 1745, says that eighty-five cannon and six mortars have been found in the town. [93] _Memoirs of the Principal Transactions of the Last War_, 40. [94] “On fit venir cinq ou six cens Miliciens aux Habitans des environs; ce que, avec ceux de la Ville, pouvoit former treize à quatorze cens hommes.”--_Lettre d’un Habitant de Louisbourg_. This writer says that three or four hundred more might have been had from Niganiche and its neighborhood, if they had been summoned in time. The number of militia just after the siege is set by English reports at 1,310. Parsons, 103. [95] _Shirley to Newcastle, 17 June, 1745_, citing letters captured on board a ship from Quebec. [96] 14 March, old style. [97] Gabarus Bay, sometimes called “Chapeau Rouge” Bay, is a spacious outer harbor, immediately adjoining Louisbourg. [98] _Bigot au Ministre, 1 Août, 1745._ [99] _Pepperrell to Shirley, 12 May, 1745._ _Shirley to Newcastle, 28 October, 1745._ _Journal of the Siege_, attested by Pepperrell and four other chief officers (London, 1746). [100] Bigot says six thousand, or two thousand more than the whole New England force, which was constantly overestimated by the French. [101] Belknap, ii. [102] John Langdon Sibley, in _N. E. Hist. and Gen. Register_, xxv. 377. The _Boston Gazette_ of 3 June, 1771, has a notice of Tufts’ recent death, with an exaggerated account of his exploit, and an appeal for aid to his destitute family. [103] Vaughan’s party seems to have consisted in all of sixteen men, three of whom took no part in this affair. [104] _Duchambon au Ministre, 2 Septembre, 1745._ This is the governor’s official report. “Four hundred men,” is perhaps a copyist’s error, the actual number in the battery being not above two hundred. [105] _Waldo to Shirley, 12 May, 1745._ Some of the French writers say twenty-eight thirty-six pounders, while all the English call them forty-twos,--which they must have been, as the forty-two-pound shot brought from Boston fitted them. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt draws my attention to the fact that cannon were differently rated in the French and English navies of the seventeenth century, and that a French thirty-six carried a ball as large as an English forty-two, or even a little larger. [106] _Journal of Major-General Wolcott._