[132] The exploit of the boy William Tufts in climbing the French flagstaff and hanging his red coat at the top as a substitute for the British flag, has also been said to have taken place on this occasion. It was, as before mentioned, at the Grand Battery. [133] Douglas makes it a little less. “We lost in this mad frolic sixty men killed and drowned, and one hundred and sixteen prisoners.”--_Summary_, i. 353. [134] “Toutes les barques furent brisées ou coulées à fond; le feu fut continuel depuis environ minuit jusqu’à trois heures du matin.”--_Duchambon au Ministre, 2 Septembre, 1745._ [135] _Bigot au Ministre, 1 Août, 1745._ [136] _Journal of the Siege_, appended to Shirley’s report. Pomeroy, _Journal_. [137] _De la Maisonfort à Duchambon, 18 Juin_ (new style), _1745. Duchambon à De la Maisonfort, 19 Juin_ (new style), _1745_. [138] _Report of a Consultation of Officers on board his Majesty’s ship “Superbe,”_ enclosed in a letter of _Warren to Pepperrell, 24 May, 1745._ [139] _Pepperrell to Warren, 28 May, 1745._ [140] _Warren to Pepperrell, 29 May, 1745._ [141] _Duchambon au Ministre, 2 Septembre, 1745._ [142] _Warren to Pepperrell, 11 June, 1745. Pepperrell to Warren, 13 June, 1745._ [143] _Bigot au Ministre, 1 Août, 1745._ [144] _Duchambon au Ministre, 2 Septembre, 1745._ [145] _Duchambon à Pepperrell et Warren, 26 Juin (new style), 1745._ [146] _Warren and Pepperrell to Duchambon, 15 June, 1745._ [147] _Duchambon à Warren et Pepperrell, 27 Juin (new style), 1745._ [148] _Pepperrell to Warren, 16 June, 1745. Warren to Pepperrell, 16 June, 1745._ [149] _Pepperrell to Shirley, 18 June_ (old style), _1745. Ibid., 4 July, 1745._ [150] _Habitant de Louisbourg._ [151] Pepperrell more than once complains of a total want of both powder and balls. Warren writes to him on May 29: “It is very lucky that we could spare you some powder; I am told you had not a grain left.” [152] “C’est par une protection visible de la Providence que nous avons prévenu une journée qui nous auroit été si funeste.”--_Lettre d’un Habitant de Louisbourg._ [153] _Warren to Pepperrell, 10 June, 1745._ [154] _Collections of Mass, Hist. Society_, i. 49. [155] A descendant of Moody, at the village of York, told me that he was found in the church busy in the work of demolition. [156] “Thursday, ye 21^{st.} Ye French keep possession yet, and we are forsed to stand at their Dores to gard them.”--_Diary of a Soldier, anonymous._ [157] _Lettre d’un Habitant de Louisbourg._