Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Beauséjour (Seven Years' War).

This fort in Nova Scotia, held by a garrison of 460 men under Duchambon de Vergor, was invested June 4, 1755, by 2,000 Massachusetts volunteers and a small force of regulars under Colonel Monckton. On the 14th the besiegers opened fire, and on the 16th the garrison surrendered.