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Daniel Auger de Subercase

SUBERCASE, Daniel Auger de, governor of Acadia, born in Limousin, France, about 1655; died there after 1710. He was sent early to Canada as an ensign and rose rapidly in the service. In 1690, with 100 men, he occupied the Isle d'Orleans, and this movement aided in compelling the British to raise the siege of Quebec. He served during the following years in the war against the Iroquois, and in 1696 was major-general in Frontenac's expedition that burned the villages of the Onondagas. In 1703 he was appointed governor of Fort St. Louis of Placentia, and waged war against the English. His main object was to expel them from Newfoundland, and this being approved at court, he set out, 15 January, 1705, at the head of 450 well-armed men, soldiers, Canadians, privateersmen, and Indians, all accustomed to march in snow-shoes. They were obliged to ford four rivers filled with floating ice, and they were also delayed two days by a heavy fall of snow. On 26 January they surprised Bobou, took Petty Harbor, three leagues from St. John, and burned every house in the latter place, but they were unable to capture the large fort that protected St. John. Returning by way of Ferryland, which he burned, Subercase sent out parties in several directions and ruined the English trade in Newfoundland. On 10 April, 1706, having succeeded Brouillan as governor of Acadia, he continued the war with renewed vigor, and attracted to Acadia several West India buccaneers, whom he employed against English commerce. The English besieged Port Royal in June and again in August, 1707, but Subercase compelled the invaders to retire with loss. The governor in vain urged Louis XIV. to make a permanent establishment in Acadia, whose strategical value he also demonstrated; but he could not even obtain money to return the advances that had been made by the settlers. This may account for the fact that Subercase made no resistance when he was attacked in 1710. On 2 October he surrendered Port Royal to Sir Francis Nicholson, and obtained the honors of war for his garrison of 156 men. No provisions were found in the place, and on the next day Nicholson had to issue rations to the French soldiers. Subercase was conveyed to La Rochelle, and in 1711 court-martialled at Roche-fort for the surrender of Port Royal, but was acquitted on account of his former services. See "An Acadian Governor," in the "International Review" for 1881.

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