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     The Expulsion of 1758 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE year 1758 was a fateful one for the habitans 
     
     of Isle Saint Jean. Faithful to the end they did what 
     
     they could to assist in the defence of Louisburg. All 
     
     the youth capable of bearing arms were sent off with 
     
     the Indians under M. de Villejouin, son of the Com- 
     
     mandant. They were employed by Drucour, at Miré, 
     
     where they were joined by Boishebert with troops 
     
     and Indians from French territory, on July 1. Ac- 
     
     cording to the latter, de Villejouin’s detachment con- 
     
     sisted of 200 men, badly equipped. One hundred of 
     
     them had to be abandoned because they had no shoes.* 
     
     The others, though willing, were of little use, as 
     
     Louisburg capitulated on July 26, and with Louis- 
     
     burg were involved the fortunes of Isle Saint Jean. 
     
    

    
     The third article of the capitulation was as fol- 
     
     lows: 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Governor shall give orders that the troops which 
     
     are on the Island of St. John and its dependencies, shall 
     
     repair on board such ships of war as the Admiral (Eng- 
     
     lish) shall send to receive them.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     The inhabitants were afterward included as it 
     
     had now become the settled policy of the British to 
     
     root out the French completely. Consequently steps 
     
     were immediately taken to deport everybody to 
     
    
   
   
    
     1 Fs, 502, August 14, 1758. 
     
     2C.0., 412, Vol. 3.