The reader can best follow Parkman (_Frontenac_, p. 357, etc.), who carefully notes the authorities for the way in which Frontenac was foiled in 1693 in an attempt to capture the English post at Pemaquid; and for the attack on Oyster River the next year (1694), Parkman’s references may be collated with Shea’s (_Charlevoix_, iv. 256). The expedition was under the conduct of Villieu and the Jesuit Thury, and what was then known as Oyster River is now Durham, about twenty miles from Portsmouth. Villieu’s own Journal is preserved: _Relation du Voyage fait par le Sieur de Villieu ... pour faire la Guerre aux Anglois au printemps de l’an 1694_, and Parkman says Champigny, Frontenac, and Callières in their reports adopt Villieu’s statements. Belknap’s _New Hampshire_ has the best English account, which may be supplemented by various papers in the _Provincial Records of New Hampshire_, and the Journal of Pike in _Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc._, xiv. 128, with Dr. Quint’s notes. The _Mass. Archives_ have depositions and letters. In 1696 Iberville, in charge of two war-ships which had come from France, uniting with such forces and savage allies as Villebon, Villieu, St. Castin, and Thury could gather, appeared on the 14th of August before the English fort at Pemaquid, which quickly surrendered. Pemaquid is a peninsula on the Maine coast between the mouths of the Kennebec and Penobscot, and the fort was situated as shown in the accompanying sketch. It was the most easterly of the English posts in this debatable territory, as the French fort at Biguyduce (Pentagöet or Castine) was the most westerly of the enemy’s. The fort at Pemaquid had been rebuilt of stone by Phips in 1692. (Mather’s _Magnalia_, Johnston’s _Bristol and Bremen_.) Baudoin, an Acadian priest, accompanied the expedition, and wrote a _Journal d’une voyage fait avec M. d’Iberville_, and Parkman also cites as contemporary French authorities the _Relation de ce qui s’est passé_, etc., of 1695-1696, and Des Goutin’s letter to the Minister of Sept. 23, 1696; cf. _N. Y. Col. Docs._, vol. ix. Mather and Hutchinson are still the chief writers on the English side, while everything of local interest is gathered in Johnston’s_ History of Bristol and Bremen, in Maine, including Pemaquid_, Albany, 1873. [Illustration] The immediate result of the capture of Pemaquid was to release D’Iberville for an attempt to drive the English from the east coast of Newfoundland in 1697. Parkman tells the story in his _Frontenac_, p. 391, and by him and by Shea in his _Charlevoix_, v. 46, the original sources are traced. Mr. Parkman (_Frontenac_, p. 408) has an important note on the military insufficiency of the English colonies at this time.