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Updated: May 3, 2025
And all the people who had been living outside hurried in behind the walls. The New Englanders were so keen to land that they ran some danger of falling into complete disorder. But Pepperrell managed very cleverly.
Pepperrell could find only six among his four thousand men. But Warren lent him three more, whom he could ill spare, as no one knew when a fleet might come out from France.
Sometimes Pepperrell was beset with prayers for favors and promotion; sometimes with complaints from one corps or another that an undue share of work had been imposed on it. One Morris, of Cambridge, writes a moving petition that his slave "Cuffee," who had joined the army, should be restored to him, his lawful master. One John Alford sends the General a number of copies of the Reverend Mr.
The two regiments raised in the colonies, and commanded by Shirley and Pepperrell, were also intended to form a part of the garrison; but difficulty was found in filling the ranks, because, says Shirley, some commissions have been given to Englishmen, and men will not enlist here except under American officers.
"The heavenly shower was over," he sadly exclaims; "from fighting the devil they must turn to fighting the French." Pepperrell, always inclined to the clergy, and now in great perplexity and doubt, asked his guest Whitefield whether or not he had better accept the command. Henry Sherburn, commissary of the New Hampshire regiment, begged Whitefield to furnish a motto for the flag.
"We were informed of the preparations from the first," says the Habitant de Louisburg. Nothing to the purpose was done, so that we were as much taken by surprise as if the enemy had pounced upon us unawares." Pepperrell managed the critical work of landing with creditable skill. The rocks and the surf were more dangerous than the enemy.
New York and Philadelphia also hailed the great news with illuminations, ringing of bells, and firing of cannon. In England the tidings were received with astonishment and a joy that was dashed with reflections on the strength and mettle of colonists supposed already to aspire to independence. Pepperrell was made a baronet, and Warren an admiral.
Horses or oxen would have foundered in the mire. The way had often to be changed, as the mossy surface was soon churned into a hopeless slough along the line of march. The work could be done only at night or in thick fog, the men being completely exposed to the cannon of the town. Pepperrell writes in ardent words of the cheerfulness of his men "under almost incredible hardships."
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