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St Anthony, NL这个岛屿最北边的一个小镇，道路破旧，不过听桥梁猜测，可能和雪季气候寒冷，路面多常撒盐加上反复融冻有关，回家后和我ld提起，他也是这样认为，并因此讲了一个加拿大历史上的小故事--三百多年前，ld的第七辈曾祖父(his 7th great grandfather)--HANDASYDE, THOMAS带领几百英军准备攻打占据纽芬兰要塞St John’s的法国军队，法军不战而弃，拿回要塞中的英军里留下来过冬的三百人却在紧接着的一个严冬冻死百分之七十以上（214人）.....
From: Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
http://www.biographi.ca/009004-1 ... SESSID=ychzfqkvzape
HANDASYDE, THOMAS, commander of the English forces at St John's, 1697-98; governor of Jamaica, 1702-11; d. 1712 [d. Mar 26, 1729].
As a junior officer Handasyde fought in campaigns in Ireland and Flanders. He was promoted major in Colonel John Gibsone's regiment, 16 March 1694, and sailed in the expedition for the re-capture of St John's, Newfoundland, in 1697. On arrival, St John's was found abandoned and destroyed, and the soldiers were put to work re-constructing the fort and other defences under the supervision of the engineer, Michael Richards. As provisions were very scarce, Colonel Gibsone decided to take the regiment home, leaving some 300 men under the command of Major Handasyde. Gibsone recommended Handasyde as a candidate for the governorship of Newfoundland describing him as a "good, worthy man, of courage and conduct, who has served the King 24 years." On his return to England in 1698, Handasyde reported that, although 214 men had died from hardship and malnutrition, the fortifications had been rebuilt. As ordered, he had formed a Newfoundland Independent Company of 53 men to constitute a permanent garrison for St John's. (Military engineers at that time held no army rank, and it was in this company that Richards received his commission as captain, as did Robert Latham some years later.) |
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