Lt.-Col. Otho Hamilton of Olivestob
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Excerpt from Lt.-Col. Otho Hamilton of Olivestob: Lieutenant-Governor of Placentia, Lieutenant-Governor of the Army, Major of the 40th Regiment of Foot, Member of the Nova Scotia Council, Form 1731 to 1744 The person most conspicuous in the capture of Port Royal in Acadia from the French, in 1710, was Francis Nicholson, a Scotchman, who has the honour of having been successively governor of a greater number of provinces than any other man known in history. Actively associated with him in this enterprise was Colonel Samuel Vetch, "the son of a godly minister in the Grass Market," Edinburgh, to whom undoubtedly belongs even more honour in the final reduction of Port Royal than to Nicholson, himself. In McVicar´s historical sketch of Annapolis Royal, the story of the prolonged efforts made by the neighbouring New England colonists to induce the British Government to send troops from England to capture the fort, will be found in detail. In these efforts both Nicholson and Vetch were the active agents of the New England people, and in response to their personal appeals, and under their conduct, a fleet was at last sent out to Boston in the summer of 1710, to join the colonists in an attack on Port Royal. On the fifth of October the force actually appeared before the town, on the ninth the troops landed from the transports, and on the tenth the surrender was completed, the French Governor, Subercase, and his faithful soldiers marching out, and the English General, Nicholson, formally receiving the keys. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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