When the great French man-of-war _Vigilant_ came to the aid of the beleaguered fortress, Warren joyously captured the monster, in full sight of Louisbourg and under the big guns there.

It was this incident, by the bye, for which he was knighted afterwards.

The French captain, Marquis de la Maisonfort, who was Warren's prisoner, wrote in a letter to Duchambon: "The Captain and officers of this squadron treat us, not as their prisoners, but as their good friends." Warren went wild with rage when he heard of the horrors that had befallen an English scouting party which had fallen into the hands of a band of Indians and Frenchmen, and hideously tortured.

He wrote stern protests to Duchambon, and it was at this time that he urged Pepperrill most earnestly to attack.

But the more phlegmatic officer could not see it in that way.