Talk:Siege of Port Royal (1707)

Dates
There is some significant confusion in the sources about the dates of at least the first siege. Drake places the arrival as May 26 (Old Style), which would be June 6 (New Style). Kingsford says the fleet sailed from Boston on May 24, arriving before Port Royal on June 6; he does not qualify the dates as either NS or OS. MacVicar and Murdoch conform with Kingsford with the arrival at Port Royal on June 6, and departure on the 17th. Faragher says the fleet arrived June 17, evening, landed the next day; this would mean the siege could not really be said to begin until the 18th. However, the discrepancy between him and the others is fairly substantial, and makes me wonder if Faragher, even though he comes later and may be in some respects more reliable, didn't convert an already-converted date (the French primary sources would have the dates in NS, English ones in OS).  Magic ♪piano 16:53, 16 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I have found other errors re: dates in Faragher's text. I find Emiley Griffith's "Migrant to Acadian" (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005) more reliable.  She states the first siege is on 6 June 1707 (N.S.)--Hantsheroes (talk) 18:39, 26 November 2010 (UTC)


 * That's good to know; I'll tread more carefully around his dates then.  Magic ♪piano 20:31, 26 November 2010 (UTC)