Port Royal, the capital of French Acadia, falls in a siege by British forces.

Siege of Port Royal (1710)

Part of Queen Anne's War

The Siege of Port Royal, also known as the Conquest of Acadia, was a military siege conducted by British regular and provincial forces under the command of Francis Nicholson against a French Acadian garrison and the Wabanaki Confederacy under the command of Daniel d'Auger de…