it was taken were but two
hundred and fifty-eight. Some of the soldiers and many of the armed
inhabitants deserted during the siege, which, no doubt, hastened the
surrender; for Subercase, a veteran of more than thirty years' service,
had borne fair repute as a soldier.

Port Royal had twice before been taken by New England men,--once under
Major Sedgwick in 1654, and again under Sir William Phips in the last
war; and in each case it had been restored to France by treaty. This
time England kept what she had got; and as there was no other place of
strength in the province, the capture of Port Royal meant the conquest
of Acadia.[146]

FOOTNOTES:

[110] Church, _Entertaining Passages_. "Un habitant des Mines a dit
que les ennemis avaient ete dans toutes les rivieres, qu'il n'y
restait plus que quatre habitations en entier, le restant ayant ete
brule."--_Expeditions faites par les Anglois, 1704._ "Qu'ils avaient ...
brule toutes les maisons a la reserve du haut des rivieres."--Labat,
_Invasion des Anglois_, 1704.

[111] On this affair, Thomas Church, _Entertaining Passages_ (1716). The
writer was the son of Benjamin Church. Penhallow; Belknap, i. 266;
_Dudley to ----, 21 April, 1704_; Hutchinson, ii. 132; _Deplorable State
of New England_; _Entreprise des Anglais sur l'Acadie_, 1704;
_Expeditions faites par les Anglais de la Nouvelle Angleterre_, 1704;
Labat, _Invasion des Anglois de Baston_, 1704.

[112] _Report of a Committee to consider his Excellency's Speech, 12
March, 1707._ _Resolve for an Expedition against Port Royal_
(Massachusetts Archives).

[113] _Autobiography of Rev. John Barnard_, one of the five chaplains of
the expedition.

[114] _A Boston Gentleman to his Friend, 13 June, 1707_ (Mass.
Archives).

[115] _Autobiography of Rev. John Barnard._

[116] _A Boston Gentleman to his Friend, 13 June _(old style)_, 1707._
The final attack here alluded to took place on the night of the
sixteenth of June (new style).

[117] _William Dudley to Governor Dudley, 24 June, 1707._

[118] _Stuckley to Dudley, 28 June, 1707._

[119] A considerable number of letters and official papers on this
expedition will be found in the 51st and 71st volumes of the
Massachusetts Archives. See also Hutchinson, ii. 151, and Belknap, i.
273. The curious narrative of the chaplain, Barnard, is in _Mass. Hist.
Coll., 3d Series_, v. 189-196. The account in the _Deplorable State of
New England_ is meant solely to injure Dudley.