 Supported by the French, Jean-Louis Le Loutre led a forces of French soldiers, and Acadians, and Mi’kmaq militiamen in efforts to recapture the capital, such as the Siege of Annapolis Royal.During this siege, the French officer Marin had taken British prisoners and stopped with them further up the bay at Cobequid.While at Cobequid, an Acadian said that the French soldiers should have "left their [the British] carcasses behind and brought their skins."