Chapter 21 No.21

The Fight at Grand Pré

On the 23d day of January, 1747, we set out from Chignecto, four hundred tried bush fighters, white and red,-some three score of our men being Indians. We went on snow-shoes, for the world was buried in drifts. There was much snow that winter, with steady cold and no January thaw. On the marsh the snow lay in mighty windro