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134 and Vetch hurling their colonials against Port Royal and forcing the surrender of the citadel. It was at this time that the name of the town was changed to Annapolis. Though defined by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, the boundaries between New France and British Acadia were contested for yet another half century. Not until 1763 were the English finally victorious.

An important chapter in the story of Annapolis was written by a Welsh architect who on his way to Halifax to erect new buildings for the Government surveyed the land and resolved to bring New England colonists to settle about the shores of Annapolis River and Bay. In 1759 a grant was conveyed to prosperous farmers from Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Four years later there were several hundred inhabitants in and about Anne's Town, all of them from New England. In 1781, two American cruisers captured the garrison and pillaged the houses of the inhabitants. After the Revolutionary War thousands of Loyalists passed through Annapolis, some of them remaining in near-by localities.

Reminiscence of the nineteenth century is tinged with the romance of privateering, of attacks and rumoured attacks, and with the tramp and clangour of garrison life. Altogether, Annapolis has been the object of a dozen assaults by pirates, by Indians, by French, English and New England troops. "Oftener than Jerusalem" it has been