HISTORY OF NOVA SCOTIA. 
hood came trembling with alarm and besoucht him 
to surrender, 
Subercase held out long enough to save him- 
self from the charge of cowardice and his men from 
being treated as prisoners of war, When the cannon 
balls began to come thick and fast he surrendered, 
Thus Port Royal, so often captured and restored 
to France, was now finally given up to Great Britain. 
In honour of the queen its namo was changed to 
Annapolis Royal. Colonel Vetch, with a garrison of 
four hundred and fifty men, was placed in charge of 
the fort. 
Nicolson engaged to send the French garrison 
to France, and also any of the inhabitants of Port 
Royal who wished to go. The Acadians within three 
miles of the fort were allowed to remain on their 
lands two years, on condition of taking the oath of 
allegiance, 
The Acadians were very unwilling to submit 
to British authority. Indeed, they did not intend to 
submit, and they refused to take the oath of allegi- 
ance, Vaudreuil, the governor of Canada, sent the 
Baron de Castine to Nova Scotia to keep alive this 
spirit of opposition, and to secure the fidelity of the 
Indians. Colonel Vetch tried in vain to hire the 
Acadians to bring timber for repairing the fort. The 
Indians, more openly hostile, attacked a company of 
seventy men, whom he had sent up the Annapolis 
river, killing thirty, and taking the rest prisoners. 
Relying on aid from Canada, four or five hundred 
Acadians invested the fort, But Vaudreuil needed 
all his forces to protect himself, and could do noti..;, 
More for the Acadians than make them uneas: ' 
exciting vain hoves,