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| | History of Nova Scotia, Part 1, Ch. 10. Acadia (1654-1684). |
 | | Temple, The Second Anglo-Dutch War & Marquis de Tracy: |
 | | Beaubassin earned his reputation in 1676, when he and his brother-in-law, the son of Nicholas Denys, Sieur Richard Denys as second in command, in their French war vessel, seized three English ketches from Boston that were taking on coal at Cape Breton. |
 | | Tracy and his troops, veterans of the Turkish wars, travelled into the Mohawk territory and "the savages fled before this great European engine of war, leaving to Tracy their wooden villages, their stores of food and the crops standing in the fields. |
| www.blupete.com /Hist/NovaScotiaBk1/Part1/Ch10.htm (1843 words) |
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