 When word of Port Royal 's fall reached France , the marine minister Pontchartrain ordered Antoine Gaulin , the French Catholic missionary priest to the loosely allied Indian tribes of present @-@ day Maine and New Brunswick , to harass the British at Annapolis Royal so that they could not establish a firm foothold in the territory . Bernard @-@ Anselme d 'Abbadie de Saint @-@ Castin , the métis Acadian ( French father and a Penobscot mother ) , was given military command of Acadia , and received similar orders . 
