a good deal of difficulty, the ‘ whotó ;set oif fire,
and all who defended the placé were slaughtered.
“ The sack of the town -began a momënt before
the attack of the fort. Few hons.es made any
resistance. M. de- Montigny discovered some;
which he attempted to carry sword in hand,
having tried the musket in vain. He repeiyed
two thrusts of a speam—one on the body and
the other in the arm. But M. de Salute Helene
having come to his aid, effected an entrance,
and put every one of the garrison to the sword.
The massacre lasted two hours, f The-remainder
of the night was spent in placing sentinels,-and
in taking some rest., 11
‘^The house belonging to the minister'was ordered
to be saved, so as to take him alive* to
obtain information from him. But as it was
not known, it was riot-saved any more, than the
others. He was slain and his papers burnt before
he could be recognized.
i “ At day-break, some men were sent to the
dwelling of Mr. Coudre* who was major of the
place at the other side? of the river. He was not
willing to surrender, arid began to put himself
on the defensive with his servants and some
Indians; but as it was respitednot'to do him any
harm, in eonsequence ofj the: good treatment
which the French had formerly experienced at
his hands, M. d*Iberville and the great Agniez
proceeded thither alone, promised him quarter
for himself, and his people, and his property,
whefeupon he laid down his arms, on parole;
entertaining them in his fort, and returned with
them to see the commandant of the town.
“ In order to occupy the savages, who would
otherwise have taken to drink, and thus rendered
themselves^unablc for defence, the houses
had already been set on fire. None were spared
in the town but one house belonging to Coudre,
and that of a widow who had six children,
whither M-de Mpfetigny had been carried when
wounded. All the, rest were consumed. The
lives of between fifty and sixty persons, old men,
wometeand children, were spared, they having
escaped the first fury of the attack.' Some twenty
Mohawks were also spared, in order to show
them that it was the English and not they, against
whom the grudgewas entertained. The loss on
this occastQfib i® houses,, cattle and grain, amounts
to more., than four hundred thousands liwes.
There were upwards of eighty well-built and
well-furnished houses in the tpysfru,
“ The return march commenced with thirty
prisoners. The wounded, who were t© be carried,
and the plunder, with wliieli all the Indians and
some Frenchmen were loaded, caused considerable
inconvenience.' Fifty good horses, were
brought away. Sixteen only of these reached
Montreal- The remainder were killed for food
on the way.
ggflj Sixty leagpesirom Cprlear, the Indians began
to hunt* and. Th# French not being able to. wait
for them, being mbrt pfi ^otiuued
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