[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 21st. 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.
[158] Report of Consultation on board the “Superbe,” 7 June, 1745. “Commodore Warren did say publickly that before the Circular Battery was reduced he would not venture in here with three times ye sea force he had with him, and, through divine assistance, we tore that [battery] and this city almost to pieces.”—Pepperrell to Shirley, 4 July, 1745.
[159] Warren had no men to spare. He says: “If it should be thought necessary to join your troops with any men from our ships, it should only be done for some sudden attack that may be executed in one day or night.”—Warren to Pepperrell, 11 May, 1745. No such occasion arose.
[160] Ibid., 13 May, 1745. On the nineteenth of May, 1746, Warren made a parting speech to the New England men at Louisbourg, in which he tells them that it was they who conquered the country, and expresses the hope that should the French try to recover it, “the same Spirit that induced you to make this Conquest will prompt you to protect it.” See the speech in Beamish-Murdoch, ii. 100-102.
[161] See extracts in Parsons, 105, 106. The Habitant de Louisbourg extols Warren, but is not partial to Pepperrell, whom he calls, incorrectly, “the son of a Boston shoemaker.”
[162] To Rous, captain of a provincial cruiser, whom Warren had commended for conduct and courage, was given the command of a ship in the royal navy.