" And the
compliments were well deserved.
At eight o'clock on the morning of the 14th of February the English filed
out of the stone house, and with arms shouldered, drums beating, and colors
flying, marched between two ranks of the French, and took the road for
Annapolis. The English sick and wounded were sent to the settlement of
Riviere-aux-Canards, where, protected by a French guard and attended by an
English surgeon, they were to remain till able to reach the British fort.
La Corne called a council of war, and in view of the scarcity of food and
other reasons it was resolved to return to Beaubassin. Many of the French
had fallen ill. Some of the sick and wounded were left at Grand Pre, others
at Cobequid, and the Acadians were required to supply means of carrying the
rest. Coulon's party left Grand Pre on the 23d of February, and on the 8th
of March reached Beaubassin. [Footnote: The dates are of the new style,
which the French had adopted, while the English still clung to the old
style.] [Footnote: By far the best account of this French victory at Mines
is that of Beaujeu, in his _Journal de la Campagne du Detachement de
Canada a l'Acadie et aux Mines en 1746-47.
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