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Hayes. It was a stockade with four bastions, 

 mounted with cannon. There was a strong block- 

 house within, in which the sixteen occupants of 

 the place were lodged, unsuspicious of clanger. 

 Troyes approached at night. Iberville and Sainte- 

 Helene with a few followers climbed the palisade 

 on one side, while the rest of the party burst the 

 main gate with a sort of battering ram, and rushed 

 in, yelling the war-whoop. In a moment, the door 

 of the blockhouse w T as dashed open, and its as- 

 tonished inmates captured in their shirts. 



The victors now embarked for Fort Rupert, dis- 

 tant forty leagues along the shore. In construc- 

 tion, it resembled Fort Hayes. The fifteen traders 

 who held the place were all asleep at night in their 

 blockhouse, when the Canadians burst the gate of 

 the stockade and swarmed into the area. One of 

 them mounted by a ladder to the roof of the build- 

 ing, and dropped lighted hand-grenades down the 

 chimney, which, exploding among the occupants, 

 told them unmistakably that something was wrong. 

 At the same time, the assailants fired briskly on 

 them through the loopholes, and, placing a petard 

 under the walls, threatened to blow them into 

 the air. Five, including a woman, w T ere killed or 

 wounded ; and the rest cried for quarter. Mean- 

 while, Iberville with another party attacked a 

 vessel anchored near the fort, and, climbing silently 

 over her side, found the man on the watch asleep 

 in his blanket. He sprang up and made fight, but 

 they killed him, then stamped on the deck to rouse 

 those below, sabred two of them as they came up 



