[111] Ferland, Cours d’Histoire du Canada, ii. 477. “L’ennemi ne nous attaquoit point dans les formes, et ne pratiquoit point aucun retranchement pour se couvrir.”—Habitant de Louisbourg.
[112] Bigot au Ministre, 1 Août, 1745.
[113] Diary of Joseph Sherburn, Captain at the Advanced Battery.
[114] He signs his name Jos. Sherburn; but in a list of the officers of the New Hampshire Regiment it appears in full as Joseph.
[115] Bigot au Ministre, 1 Août, 1745.
[116] Duchambon au Ministre, 2 Septembre, 1745.
[117] “Another forty-two pound gun burst at the Grand Battery. All the guns are in danger of going the same way, by double-shotting them, unless under better regulation than at present.”—Waldo to Pepperrell, 20 May, 1745.
Waldo had written four days before: “Captain Hale, of my regiment, is dangerously hurt by the bursting of another gun. He was our mainstay for gunnery since Captain Rhodes’s misfortune” (also caused by the bursting of a cannon). Waldo to Pepperrell, 16 May, 1745.
[118] Pepperrell to Warren, 28 May, 1745.
[119] Letter from an Officer of Marines appended to A particular Account of the Taking of Cape Breton (London, 1745).