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426: 97: 32: 393:. Iberville captured the English doctor in the hope of increasing the death rate. A kind of truce was made and there was a considerable amount of coming and going between the two forts. When enough English had died of scurvy, Iberville decided to act. He ambushed a wood-cutting party, capturing twenty men, and then attacked the main fort. The post held out for several days, but when there were only eight 'sound men' left, it surrendered. 412: 440: 388:
appeared. They sailed up the river, landed twenty men and built a barricade. The English had 85 men and the French, 16 Canadians and some number of sailors. A fortnight later they began to build a fort during which three English were shot. The truce now being broken and the English outnumbering the
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learned of its loss in January 1687 and appealed to the king. This led to about a year of diplomatic negotiations. In 1688 the Company sent five ships to the Bay. Two went to its remaining post at
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French, Governor Marsh should have attacked, but he did not. At some point all three ships became frozen in for the winter. By December the English began to die of
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on the west shore of James Bay. Their instructions were to re-establish the English trade and not to use force against the French unless the French did so first.
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In spring he captured the two ships. In summer he sailed across the bay to Fort Rupert and captured the
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the French had, in time of peace, marched overland from Quebec and captured all three English posts on
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and resupplied Fort Albany. In September 1688, just as he was preparing to leave,
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Arthur S Morton, 'A History of the Canadian West', no date, but about 1950
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Company of Adventurers: The Story of the Hudson's Bay Company
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