<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> On 26 July the French surrendered . Having fought a spirited defence, the French expected to be accorded the honours of war, as they had given to the surrendering British at the Battle of Minorca . However, Amherst refused, tales of the atrocities supposedly committed by France's native allies at the surrender of Fort Oswego and Fort William Henry probably fresh in his mind . The defenders of Louisbourg were ordered to surrender all of their arms, equipment and flags . These actions outraged Drucour, but because the safety of the non-combatant inhabitants of Louisbourg depended upon him he reluctantly accepted the terms of surrender . The Cambis regiment refused to honour the terms of surrender, breaking its muskets and burning its regimental flags rather than hand them over to the British victors . Brigadier - General Whitmore was appointed the new Governor of Louisbourg, and remained there with four regiments . </P> <P> Louisbourg had held out long enough to prevent an attack on Quebec in 1758 . However the fall of the fortress led to the loss of French territory across Atlantic Canada . From Louisbourg, British forces spent the remainder of the year routing French forces and occupying French settlements in what is today New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland . The second wave of the Acadian expulsion began . The British engaged in the St. John River Campaign, the Cape Sable Campaign, the Petitcodiac River Campaign, the Ile Saint - Jean Campaign, and the removal of Acadians in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign (1758). </P>

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