saussaye's

Updated: July 11, 2025

Desert, where he stole Saussaye's commission and cast adrift in an open boat fifteen of the colonists. Poutrincourt's son, Biencourt, was now Governor of Acadia, and stationed at Port Royal.

Eliza B. (Eliza Brown) Chase - Over the Border: Acadia, the Home of "Evangeline"

Here they landed, levelled La Saussaye's unfinished defences, cut down the French cross, and planted one of their own in its place. Next they sought out the island of St. Croix, seized a quantity of salt, and razed to the ground all that remained of the dilapidated buildings of De Monts.

Francis Parkman - Pioneers of France in the New World