Paul Mascarene
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Major-General Jean-Paul Mascarene was a British army officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Nova Scotia from 1740 to 1749. During his tenure as governor, he led the colony th
Portrait by John Smibert, c. 1729
The siege of Annapolis Royal in 1745 involved the third of four attempts by the French, along with their Acadian and native allies, to regain the capital of Nova Scotia/Acadia, Annapolis Royal, during
Paul Mascarene
…the Kingdom of France, and rose to the rank of major general. He is best known for repulsing two French attempts to capture Annapolis Royal in 1744 and 1745. Mascarene was from a Huguenot family, driven from France at the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685. Subsequently, Mascarene was cared for by…
Commodor Edward Tyng by Joseph Blackburn