THE GENERAL HISTORY of the Late WAR: CONTAINING IT'S Rife, Progrefs, and Event, IN EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, and AMERICA. AND EXHIBITING. The STATE of the Belligerent Powers at the Commencement of the War; their Interefts and Objects in it's Continuation; and REMARKS on the Measures, which led GREAT BRITAIN to Victory and Conqueft. INTERSPERSED WITH The CHARACTERS of the able and difinterefted STATESMEN, to whofe Wisdom and Integrity, and of the HEROES, to whose Courage and Conduct, we are indebted for that NAVAL and MILITARY Succefs, which is not to be equalled in the Annals of this, or of any other Nation. AND WITH Accurate Descriptions of the SEAT of WAR, the Nature and Importance of our Conquefts, and of the most remarkable BATTLES by Sea and Land. Illuftrated with A Variety of HEADS, PLANS, MAPS, and CHARTS, Defigned and Engraved by the beft Artifts. VOL. V. Hiftorici eft: nequid falfi, audeat dicere: nequid veri, non audeat. POLIB. By the Rev. JOHN ENTICK, M. A. And other GENTLEMEN. LONDON: Printed for EDWARD DILLY, in the Poultry; M.DCC.LXIV. pealants Acadia ***❖URING the continuation of our A. D. 66 operations against Canada, the 1760. DFrench peafants and neutrals, and French the chiefs of the Indian tribes in and In***** Acadia or Nova Scotia, convinced dians in that they could hope for no protection from their fubmit. old friends the French, in a fruitless oppofition to the English establishment in their country, and foreseeing the certain conquest of all the province of Canada, in confequence of the lofs of Quebec, came in to the English commander at Chignecto, and made their formal fubmiffion. The deputies of the French peasants refiding at Merimichi, Rifhebucta, Bouctox, Pircondiack and Mamevancook, made their submission on the 10th of December 1759: and a French priest, who had the charge of the people at Merimichi, Rifbe A 2 |