He was indeed so quiet about it, and so uniformly polite, that his fiery associate was simply obliged to cool off.

He was of too genuinely fine fibre to bear a grudge or to make a hard situation harder, and he consented to compromise, saying truly that at such times it was "necessary not to Stickle at Trifles!" At last the time came for action, and on the seventeenth of June they took Louisbourg, in a most brilliant and stirring manner, and Warren was so wild with delight that he could not contain himself.

He scribbled a note to Pepperrill which sounds like the note of a rattle-pated college lad instead of a distinguished naval commander: "We will soon keep a good house together, and give the Ladys of Louisbourg a gallant Ball." He probably gave that ball, too, though there doesn't seem to be any record of it.

He certainly had a beautiful time going about making speeches to the troops, amid much cheering; and dispensing casks of rum in which to drink his health and King George's! He was made the English Governor of the fortress temporarily, and when the news of their capture reached England both commanders were knighted and Peter Warren was made Rear Admiral of the Blue.
And in the height of the excitement a ship arrived at Louisbourg one fine day bearing Susanna herself, who had come in person to see that the hero of the day was really safe and sound! A letter written from Louisbourg on September 25th, and published in the _Weekly Post Boy_, gives this account: "...

The King has made the General a baronet of Great Britain; and 'tis said Mr.Warren will be one also, who is recommended by the Lords Justices to the King of Governor of this Place, and is made Rear Admiral of the Blue: He hoisted his Flag yesterday Afternoon on the Superbe, when he was saluted by the Ships in the Harbour, and the Grand Battery." Soon after,--if we may trust James Grant Wilson's history,--he did indeed receive the Order of the Bath, and so henceforward we must give him his title,--Admiral Sir.