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 Account of the Treasurer 
 
 of 
 
 The Colony of Rhode Island 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 PORT ROYALL EXPEDITION 
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 Issued at the General Court of the Society of 
 Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Isla7td and 
 
 Providence Plantations^ by its 
 Governor, George Leander Shepley, Esquire 
 
 and the 
 ^ Council of the Society 
 
 December 30, 19 16 
 
 Providence: Printed for the Society by the Standard Printing Co. 
 from the original MS. in the archives of the State of Rhode Island 
 


HE STRUGGLE known as the War of the 
 Spanish Succession was the last attempt of 
 King Louis XIV to overcome his European 
 enemies. It was known in America as Queen A nne's War. 
 New England had suffered heavily from attacking 
 war parties sent out from the Canadas. Reprisal was 
 difficult, as leagues of pathless forest controlled by 
 Indians friendly to the French stretched between the 
 towns of the opponents and furnished grave obstacles to 
 English attack. The sea furnished a comparatively 
 easy and open way of approach to certain Canadian 
 points. The only station of any importance within 
 striking distance of New England was Port Royal, on 
 the western shore of what is now Nova Scotia. Several 
 attacks were made on this port. After the Deerfield 
 massacre in 1704, Col. Benjamin Church led an expedi- 
 tion along the Maine coast and up to Grand Pre and 
 Port Royal, which resulted in the destruction of some 
 French property, but which had no material success. 
 In 1707, an expedition under Col. John March with 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Appleton as second in command 
 attacked Port Royal, but was repulsed. 
 
 New England continued to regard Port Royal as the 
 center from which came many of its troubles, and 
 the tenacious New England spirit clung to the idea 
 that this place must become England's own. 
 
In 1 7 10, after strong representation made to her 
 Majesty, Queen Anne, Great Britain authorized an 
 expedition under the leadership of Col. Francis Nichol- 
 son. Nicholson had been governor of different Ameri- 
 can colonies, but had had no military experience. 
 
 British ships arrived in Boston September i8. The 
 attacking squadron as finally made up consisted of 
 three fourth-rates ; two fifth-rates ; the province galley ; 
 one bomb-ketch ; twenty-four small transports ; two or 
 three hospital ships; a tender and several small sloops 
 carrying timber on which to bed cannon. On Septem- 
 ber 24, the fleet arrived off Port Royal, and on the 25th 
 a landing was made by 400 British marines and 1500 
 provincials. 
 
 The French in Port Royal at this time were few in 
 number and, realizing the futility of resistance, Suber- 
 case, their commander, surrendered the Port on Octo- 
 ber I or 2. 
 
 Twice before this time had Port Royal been taken by 
 New England men, and twice had it been restored to 
 France by treaty. This time England kept what she had 
 acquired. Colonel Nicholson changed the name of the 
 place to Annapolis Royal, and with the capture, French 
 dominion in Acadia ceased, and three years after with 
 the Treaty of Utrecht the province became Nova 
 Scotia. 
 
Rhode Island furnished in all about one hundred and 
 eighty men. The names of eighty-five of these appear 
 in the billeting roll which is part of the account. 
 Together with the New Hampshire troops, this levy 
 formed a battalion of 300 men. Massachusetts furnished 
 two battalions of 450 men each; Connecticut, one 
 battalion of 300 men. 
 
 Edwin Aylsworth Burlingame 
 Norman Morrison Isham 
 Charles Edward Cannon 
 
 Note.— The information here given is taken in large part from Park- 
 man's A Half- Century of Conflict, to which the reader is referred for a 
 full account of the long struggle between English and French on American 
 soil. 
 
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