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BNL.758.021
24 Aug 1758:32 (2928)
Accounts of the surrender of Louisbourg. Extract of a
letter, dated Chabaroux-Bay, July 29.
" I have now the pleasure to tell you that yesterday morning
I was agreeably entertain'd with the Grenadier's March
finely play'd upon 3 fifers & 2 drums, relieving the
Grenadier's Guard under British colours upon the walls of
Louisbourg, which is a fine tune the French has not danced
to for some time, but now its time for 'em to pay the
fifers; our batteries had been open about 4 days when a
colonel of the 26th instant, came out with a letter to the
general, who was coldly received, and a letter given him to
return an answer to in an hour; at the time he came out, he
begged for half an hour longer, which was refused and a
quarter granted to return, with a surrender or not to be
admitted again; . . .
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