Historical records of the New Brunswick Regiment, Canadian Artillery

'N. B. GARRISON ARTILLERY. 1 99the gallant lady roused the defenders and inspired them by anexhibition of her personal courage. Charnisay finding himselfagain in danger of being defeated, proposed honorable termsof surrender for the capitulation of the garrison. Madame I.aTour seeing no hope of the siege being raised, and trustingthe word of a soldier, on Easter Sunday, April i6 of that year,opened the gates to the victor, who gave immediate orders thatthe garrison be hanged, sparing the lives of only two, MadameLaTour and a soldier who consented to become the executionerof the others. Broken hearted with grief the noble lady diedsoon afterwards and was buried somewhere near the ' Old Fortin a grave that is unknown today. This scene of heroism wascaptured by the British under Colonel Monckton in 1758, andwas afterwards known as ' Fort Frederick.' Mention was madeof it in the first chapter when the defences of the city werestrengthened in anticipation of a French invasion in 1793.On the opposite bank of the river, near Rankine's wharf,Charnisay also had built a fort, portions of w^hich may yetbe distinctly traced. While excavating for a sewer a few yearsago the workmen found a number of cannon balls of smallcahbre.Fort Howe, situated on a rocky eminence in the old Parishof Portland, now part of the City of Saint John, was garrisonedby a corps under Major Guilford Studholm in 1777-78, inconsequence of a threatened revolt of the Indian tribes, andwas for many years the chief military post at Saint John. In1784 Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Morse, R. E., reported toSir Guy Carleton, general and commander-in-chief, upon thisand all other fortifications in the Province of Nova Scotia.The report is published in the Dominion archives for 1884,and is a very interesting document. Lieutenant-Colonel Morse