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136 In 1643, La Tour and d'Aunay fought an engagement near Poutrincourt's mill which resulted in its destruction by La Tour. The same year d'Aunay de Charnisay built a fort on the cape, probably the first to be erected there.

The first vessel built in North America is said to have been launched by Samuel Champlain from the ways at Port Royal. In 1710 the first Church of England service held in Canada was celebrated in the chapel next to Fort Anne to give thanks for Nicholson's victory over Subercase.

The ancient burying-ground of the English dates from this period. A gate admits one to it from the fort. Pathways through the grass lead to the sunken graves of garrison officers and their wives, to the resting-place of antecedents of General Sir Fenwick Williams, to the mounds in the Haliburton plot where lie three children of Judge Thomas Haliburton and his wife, the romantic Miss Neville whom he married in England as a youth of twenty. A few years ago a Celtic cross was unveiled in memory of the Reverend Thomas Wood who came to Annapolis as a missionary in 1753. He was born in New Jersey and had charges at