The episodes of the capture of Pensacola by the French, its recapture by the Spaniards, the desertion of a large part of the French garrison, the successful resistance of Sérigny to the siege of Dauphin Island by a Spanish fleet, the opportune arrival of a French fleet, and the capture again of Pensacola, furnished occupation and excitement to the colonists for a few months, but had no other result. The port was returned to Spain when peace was restored.[57] For several years the French at Natchitoches, and the Spaniards a few miles off at the Mission of the Adaes, had lived peacefully side by side. The French lieutenant in command of the post took advantage of the outbreak of hostilities to destroy the Spanish Mission. It was, however, immediately reoccupied by the Spaniards in force, and was permanently retained by them. In Illinois, through the arrival of a band of Missouris who had come to chant the calumet bedecked in chasubles and stoles, and tricked out in the paraphernalia of the altar, Boisbriant learned that a Spanish expedition from Santa Fé, in 1720, had been completely annihilated by these savages. [Illustration: NEW ORLEANS IN 1719. [This is reproduced from plate ii. of Thomassy’s _Géologie pratique de la Louisiane_. There is another cut in Gay’s _Popular History of the United States_, ii. 530. To M. de Vallette Laudun, or Laudreu, sometimes referred to as the Chevalier de Bonrepos, is ascribed the authorship of a _Description du Mississipi, écrite de Mississipi en France à Mademoiselle D._ ... (Paris, 1720), the writer being the captain of the ship “Toulouse.” It was reprinted as _Relation de la Louisiane, écrite à une dame par un officier de marine_, in the _Relations de la Louisiane et du fleuve Mississipi_, published at Amsterdam in 1720, which corresponds to vol. v. of Bernard’s _Recueil des voyages au nord_. It was reprinted as _Journal d’un voyage à la Louisiane fait en 1720 par M. ..., capitaine de vaisseau du roi_, both at Paris and La Haye in 1768 (Carter-Brown, vol. iii. nos. 280, 1,641).—ED.]]