from Nelson Slip are the remains of Fort Frederick, which the English took from the French in 1758, defended against the Indians in 1776 and lost to the Americans the year after. Though authorities do not agree as to the situation, it is commonly accepted that the Huguenot trader, Charles La Tour and his wife had their station on the Carleton shore, and that Fort Frederick stands upon the foundations of the original four bastions built in 1635. The enmity between La Tour and Charnisay, rival lords of Acadie, has received brief mention in another chapter.[1] Lady La Tour's romantic exploits have been immortalised by poet and fabulist, and extolled by historians as among the bravest deeds performed by woman in any century. During de la Tour's absence in Boston to secure assistance against de Charnisay, who was commissioned by the French court to arrest him, Marie, Lady of La Tour, stayed alone at the fort attended by a garrison of half a hundred. She had already proved her mettle by crossing to France and England in her husband's behalf and in escaping at one time under the very nose of Charnisay's ships to a relief vessel from Rochelle which had carried Charles and Marie to Massachusetts, where a fleet had been assembled formidable enough to temporarily vanquish their enemy.
In the winter of 1645 Charnisay, learning from
- ↑ See under Annapolis, Chapter VI.
