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BNL.710.001
30 Oct-6 Nov 1710:12,21,22,31 (342)
Journal of an expedition performed by the forces of our
sovereign Lady Anne, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain,
France and Ireland, Queen, defender of the faith, &c. Under
the command of the honorable Francis Nicholson, General and
Commander in Chief, in the year 1710. For the reduction of
Port Royal in Nova Scotia, or any other place in those parts
in America, then in possession of the French. . .
. . . [12:] Bay of Fundy at mouth of Port-Royal River. . .
Monday Sept. 25. . . 28 lines] Col. Vetch with the two
battalions on the North side drew up and march'd with drums
beating, and colours flying to the camp they design'd to
take. . . [9 lines]
. . . [21:] Tuesday 26. [14 lines . . . a small
detachment of marines pass a mill and are fired on by
French, receiving no damage;] which occasion'd the general,
with the whole body of granadiers to march down the hill and
over the marsh in sight of the fort with drums beating, and
colours flying, and immediately on the generals coming upon
the upland, the enemy out the woods fired upon Major
Livingston and his men . . . [rest of col.]
. . . [22:] Friday 29th. [9 lines] After dinner two
French officers an ensign and serjeant with a drummer came
out of the fort with a flag of truce, and brought our
general a letter from Monsieur Subercase which follows. . .
. [3 paras.]
The French officers that came to our camp from the Fort
transgressing the rules of war were put in an arrest, and
our General sent Provost Marshal Elliot Serjeant William
Williams of the marines and a drummer with a flag of truce
to the fort with an answer to Monsieur Subercase's letter
which follows.
. . . [31:] Sir, I am surprised that the officer which I
sent you fail'd to beat the drum before he came into your
camp; since that I gave him colours and a drum for that very
reason, and I positively order him to walk all along the
high-way. . . [drummers go back and forth with letters from
both sides, incl.:
32: 3d.para.] I am not concern'd to know whether you sent
your officer hither to take care of the lady's or not, but
an very much in the opinion his manner of approaching us,
was contrary to the rules of war, it being most certain that
he ought to have began beating so soon as he came out of the
gate of your fort, as to that part of your letter that
relates to giveing the lady's who are near their time of
lying in, . . . ie. he came out of the gate of your fort,
. . . [thru to p.12, col.2]
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