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France. On August 8, Amherst instructed Lord Rollo, accompanied by Lieutenant Spry, engineer, to take 500 men on four ships of war, and to proceed, under proper convoy provided by Admiral Bosca- wen, to St. John’s Island. There he was to build a fort near the existing barracks or on the best site available, capable of being defended by 100 men or as many as should be necessary for their own secu- rity and for the security of the island. Carpenters, boards, spikes, nails, palisades, and everything necessary were to be taken along with the troops.

M. Drucour was to send two or three officers from Louisburg to inform the garrison and the inhabit- ants of the capitulation and to instruct them to lay down their arms. If any of the inhabitants should refuse to lay down their arms or should offer opposi- tion they were to be treated as rebels and destroyed “that we may remain in quiet possession of the island.”

All the inhabitants who should surrender or be taken alive, were to be brought to Louisburg, and if the number should be so great as not to leave room for the troops, they should be sent off first and the ships would return for the latter.

When everything was settled, a captain and three subalterns with 100 to 130 men or as many as Lord Rollo should consider necessary, should be left and he should return to Louisburg for further orders.?

On August 8, Colonel Rollo set out and immedi-

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