ON CAPE BEETON. 



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The English obtained possession of 221 cannon, 18 mortars, "7,500 muskets and a great 

 quantity of stores and provisions ; 5,937 officers and men, of whom 3,301 were soldiers 

 and 2,606 sailors, became prisoners of war. In addition to the men under arms there were 

 in the town a large number of inhabitants, merchants and fishermen with their families, 

 and these persons were eventually sent to La Rochelle, in France, and Louisbourg forever 

 bade farewell to the people who had been living for years under the flag of France and 

 sharing her fortunes on the American continent. 



England had won her first great success on this continent in the campaign commenced 

 under the inspiration and genius of Pitt. The news was received in America and Eng- 

 land with many rejoicings, and the eleven stands of colours that were won at this gateway 

 of Canada were deposited in St. Paul's Cathedral amid the roar of cannon. Thanksgivings 

 were offered to heaven from the Puritan pulpits of New England, loyal toasts were drunk 

 round many a festive board in New York and Philadelphia, bells pealed from the towers 

 and steeples, towns were illuminated from Maine to Virginia ; and in the English posts 



English medal struck on capture of Louisbourg. 



of Acadia, in the camp of Lake George, where Abercromby was fretting under the 

 humiliation of defeat, wherever the tidings came, Englishmen rejoiced and predicted a 

 speedy end to French power ir(, America. 



When we recall this victory of the Seven Tears' "War let us not forget to do justice to 

 the men who achieved it. "Wolfe distinguished himself from the beginning to the end of 

 the siege and was the soul and impulse of the enterprise. '■ 



" Wolfe where'er he fought, 

 Put so much of his heart into his act, 

 That his example had a magnet's force, 

 And all were swift to follow whom all loved." 



" III. The governor shall give his orders that the troops which are in the island of St. .Tolin's and its appur- 

 tenances shall go on board such ships of war as the admiral shall send to receive them. 



" IV. The gate called Port Dauphin i^hall be given to the troops of his Britannic Majesty to-morrow, at eight 

 o'clock in the morning, and the garrison, including all that carried arms, drawn up at noon on the Esplanade, 

 where they shall lay down their arms, colours, implements and ornaments of war. And the garrison shall go on 

 board to be carried to England in a convenient time. 



" V. The same care shall be taken of the sick and wounded that are in the hospitals as of those belonging to 

 his Britannic Majesty. 



"VI. The merchants and their clerks that have not carried arms shall be sent to France in such manner as 

 the admiral shall think proper." 



Murdoch, " Hist, of Nova Scotia," ii. 343-344, and Entinck, " Hist, of the Late War," iii. 246-247, give the 

 articles of capitulation in full. 



' From the collection of Mr. McLachlan, Montreal. See App. XIII to this work, No. 8 medal on list. 



