 With only 23 men, the valiant Martin beat off an attack by three Dutch warships.The English government planned to expand these fortifications (Fort William) in around 1689, but construction didn't begin until after the French admiral Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville captured and destroyed the town in the Avalon Peninsula Campaign (1696).When 1500 English reinforcements arrived in late 1697, they found rubble where the town and fortifications had stood.