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39: 139: 154: 686: 673:). Gorham's rangers brought the total manpower of the garrison up to about 270. A few days later, Gorham led his native rangers in a surprise raid on a nearby Mi'kmaq encampment. They killed and mutilated the bodies of women and children. The Mi'kmaq withdrew and Duvivier was forced to retreat back to Grand Pre on 5 October. (The following year, Mi'kmaq sought revenge on Gorham's Rangers by torturing the rangers they took prisoner at Goat Island (off Annapolis Royal) during the 701: 464: 640:, who had led the Canso raid, led the second siege attempt against Fort Anne, with a force of 200 troops. Duvivier arrived at Fort Anne on 6 September 1744. The first night he erected shelters. He used Gautier's house for his Headquarters. The next morning he approached the fort and the Governor of Nova Scotia, 712:
From this siege, the French learned that until they could send an army with siege guns and cannon against the capital, there was little to gain from exposing their forces in a siege. A successful French campaign would depend on the navy's ability to supply the army. The French also learned that
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Duvivier waited until 9 September to begin the siege. The French troops and Mi'kmaq attacked the wall of the fort each night and conducted daily raids around the ramparts. On 15 September, Duvivier again asked Mascarene to surrender which he refused. They continued to fight. On 25 September a
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During the siege Duvivier waited weeks for French vessels to arrive to reinforce his attack, while Mascarene awaited for support from Boston. On September 26, New England
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On the morning of 7 September, Duvivier sent his younger brother to the fort under a flag of truce carrying a message that said British resistance was futile.
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responded by firing a cannon, which lead Duvivier to withdraw. That night Duvivier sent small parties to the fort which led to skirmishing the whole night.
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to Nova Scotia. The French and Mi'kmaq land forces were thwarted on both attempts on the capital because of the failure of French naval support to arrive.
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On 20 October 1744 the government of Massachusetts officially declared war on the Mi'kmaq. A bounty was offered for the head of any man, woman or child.
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The old Meductic Fort and the Indian chapel of Saint Jean Baptiste: paper read before the New Brunswick Historical Society (1897)
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The Journal of Captain William Pote, Jr., during his Captivity in the French and Indian War from May, 1745, to August, 1747
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600-700 total; 24 Acadians, 56 French soldiers, 100 Mi'kmaq from Ile Royal, 30 Mi'kmaq from Nova Scotia (second siege)
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without incident. Du Vivier's next plan was to take the only other British outpost in Nova Scotia, Annapolis Royal.
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to raise a force of Acadians and Indians to assault the Nova Scotian capital. Le Loutre raised a force of 300
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successfully defending the last British outpost in the colony and for the first arrival of New England Ranger
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The French made two further attempts, both unsuccessful, to regain Annapolis Royal during the war.
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they could not rely on the majority of Acadians to take up arms against the British.
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Geoffery Plank. An Unsettled Conquest. University of Pennsylvania. 2001. p. 110
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Pothier, Bernard (1985). "The Siege of Annapolis Royal, 1744".
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A history of the French wars: ending in the conquest of Canada
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with an assault on the capital, which the British had renamed
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British sergeant was killed and a private was wounded.
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King George's War

Paul Mascarene
40th Regiment
John Smibert
Fort Anne
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
44°44′28.1″N 65°30′40.8″W / 44.741139°N 65.511333°W / 44.741139; -65.511333
Great Britain
France
Mi'kmaq
Maliseet
Paul Mascarene
John Gorham
Edward How
Edward Tyng
Jean-Louis Le Loutre
François Dupont Duvivier
Pierre Maillard
Joseph-Nicolas Gautier
Joseph LeBlanc
Maliesst
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King George's War
Planned French invasion
Canso
Newfoundland
Annapolis Royal 1st

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