Samuel Vetch
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Samuel Vetch was a British military officer and colonial administrator who thrice served as the governor of Nova Scotia between 1710 and 1717. He was a leading figure in the Darien scheme, a failed Sc
Portrait of Vetch
Siege of Port Royal (1710)
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The siege of Port Royal, also known as the Conquest of Acadia, was a military siege conducted by British regular and provincial forces under the command of Francis Nicholson against a French Acadian g
Samuel Vetch
…Succession), and the effort collapsed. Nicholson immediately returned to London, and secured a new promise of support for 1710. The 1710 expedition succeeded in capturing the Acadian capital of Port Royal, although little of the surrounding countryside was pacified. Vetch was named the first governor of Nova Scotia, and…
Military engineer's drawing of Port Royal, 1702
Citadel hill