Public Documents of Nova Scotia, 223, 224, 226, 227, 238.
252
Public Documents of Nova Scotia, 239.
253
Shirley to Robinson, 20 June, 1755.
254
Mémoires sur le Canada, 1749-1760. An English document, State of the English and French Forts in Nova Scotia, says 1,200 to 1,400.
255
Mémoires sur le Canada, 1749-1760.
256
Winslow, Journal and Letter Book. Mémoires sur le Canada, 1749-1760. Letters from officers on the spot in Boston Evening Post and Boston News Letter. Journal of Surgeon John Thomas.
257
"11 June. Capt. Adams went with a Company of Raingers, and Returned at 11 Clock with a Coach and Sum other Plunder." Journal of John Thomas.
258
Journal of Pichon, cited by Beamish Murdoch.
259
On the capture of Beauséjour, Mémoires sur le Canada, 1749-1760; Pichon, Cape Breton, 318; Journal of Pichon, cited by Murdoch; and the English accounts already mentioned.
260
Knox, Campaigns in North America, I. 114, note. Knox, who was stationed in Nova Scotia, says that Le Loutre left behind him "a most remarkable character for inhumanity."
261
Winslow, Journal. Villeray au Ministre, 20 Sept. 1755.
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