Port Royal
Founded by De Monts in 1605. The basin had been discovered
the previous year, and the land granted to Poutrincourt, who named it
Port Royal. The early settlement is described in Lescarbot's History of
New France. Captured by Sedgwick, under the orders of Cromwell, in
1654; restored in 1668. Again captured by Phipps, 1690, and once more
restored to France by the treaty of Ryswick, 1697. Nicholson finally
captured the place in 1710, and re-named it Annapolis Royal (q.v.).