At length, after a siege of forty-nine days, want of provisions and the general dissatisfaction of the inhabitants, caused the garrison to surrender.
When the New Englanders saw the strength of the works, and the slight impression which their efforts had produced, they were not only elated but greatly astonished at their success.

It should be noticed, that in the above attack the number of guns in the fleet was almost _three_ times as great as that of all the forts combined; and yet the _naval_ part of the attack was unsuccessful.

The besieging army was more than _four_ times as great as all the garrisons combined; and yet the place held out forty-nine days, and at last was surrendered through the want of provisions and the disaffection of the citizens.

This place was soon afterwards restored to the French.
We see that, thus far in these wars, the English were vastly superior in strength and numbers, yet the result of the several campaigns was decidedly in favor of the French, who not only retained their possessions in the North, but extended their jurisdiction to the mouth of the Mississippi, and laid claim to the whole country west of the Alleghany mountains.

This success must be attributed, not to any superiority of the Canadians in bravery, but to the higher military character of their governors, _and more especially to their fortifications_, which were constructed in situations most judiciously selected, to influence the Indians and facilitate incursions into the English colonies.