Naval battle off Tatamagouche

Naval Battle off Tatamagouche
Part of King George's War

Naval Battle off Tatamagouche - National Historic Sites of Canada Plaque
Date15 June 1745 (old style)
Location
Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia
Result British victory
Belligerents
  Great Britain
Commanders and leaders
Paul Marin de la Malgue
Strength
 Over 175 men
four ships
Casualties and losses
"Considerable slaughter" of French and Indians;[6][7] "many slain"[8] None
Acadia in the year 1743, with Tatamagouche at the north coast of the Acadian peninsula
Cannon from Captain Fones' ship Tartar, Newport Historical Society

The action of 15 June 1745 (also known as the Battle of Famme Goose Bay[9]) was a naval encounter between three New England vessels and a French and native relief convoy en route to relieve the Siege of Louisbourg (1745) during King George's War. The French and native convoy of four French vessels and fifty native canoes carrying 1200 fighters was led by Paul Marin de la Malgue and the New England forces were led by Captain David Donahew. The New Englanders were successful. The Governor of Ile Royal Louis Du Pont Duchambon thought that the New Englanders would have ended their siege of Louisbourg had Marin arrived.[10] (There were 1800 French soldiers at Louisbourg versus 4200 New Englanders.) Instead, the day following the battle, Duchambon surrendered Louisbourg to New England.[11]

  1. ^ Pote (1896), p. 174.
  2. ^ "Captain Daniel Fones, Colonial Naval Hero". smallstatebighistory.com. The Online Review of Rhode Island History. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  3. ^ (Estimates 200- 1000 (Pote (1896), p. 16, says 200; Donahew reports 1000 p. 17; Howard Millar Chapin. New England Vessels in the Expedition Against Louisbourg, 1745. Providence, R. I. )
  4. ^ Howard Millar Chapin. New England Vessels in the Expedition Against Louisbourg, 1745. Providence, R. I.
  5. ^ Pote (1896).
  6. ^ Howard Millar Chapin. New England Vessels in the Expedition Against Louisbourg, 1745. Providence, R. I.
  7. ^ "Journal of Roger Walcott at the Siege of Louisbourg". 1860. pp. 148–149 – via The Internet Archive.
  8. ^ Journal Wolcott, p. 148
  9. ^ Arnold, Samuel Greene (1860). "History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations From the Settlement of the State, 1636 to the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, 1799". New York: D. Appleton & Company. p. 149 – via Google Books.
  10. ^ Murdoch, Beamish (1866). A History of Nova-Scotia, Or Acadie. Vol. II. Halifax: J. Barnes. p. 74.; Patterson, p 17; "Pote's Journal" ibid p. xxvii)
  11. ^ Contemporary British colonial accounts record the siege as occurring 30 April – 16 June in the Old Style.