Had you not heard?
A fast-sailing vessel has brought it to Southampton--the evil tidings of disaster and death.

The fort held out bravely through a terrible cannonade; but no relief was sent, and the walls were battered down.

There was nothing for it but surrender.

The garrison obtained honourable terms; but the French either could not or would not restrain their Indian allies.

Surrender was followed by a brutal massacre of the hapless soldiers and their wives and children.