For 200 years, the wreck of the Machault, a 26-gun military sailing vessel charged with protecting merchant vessels from the British, has remained under water. At the Battle of Restigouche National Historic Site, it is now possible to admire the ship’s remains and to relive the last naval battle between France and Great Britain for possession of North American territory. It's an extraordinary journey that will take you all the way back to 1760! Pendant 200 ans, l’épave du Machault, voilier de 26 canons chargé de protéger des navires marchands contre les Britanniques, est restée sous l’eau. Il est aujourd’hui possible d’en admirer les vestiges et de revivre le tout dernier affrontement naval entre la France et la Grande-Bretagne pour la possession du territoire nord-américain au lieu historique national de la Bataille-de-la-Ristigouche. Un voyage extraordinaire qui vous entrainera en 1760! Source: Parks Canada Website (2022)

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Management Plan / Plan directeur (Parks Canada, October 2007)

Fighting at Restigouche: The men and vessels of 1760 at Chaleur Bay / Combattre à Ristigouche: Hommes et navires de 1760 dans la baie des Chaleurs Studies in Archaeology, Architecture, and History/Études en archéologie, architecture et histoire (Gilles Proulx, Parks Canada, 1999)

Legacy of the Machault : A Collection of 18th-century Artifacts / L'héritage du Machault Studies in Archaeology, Architecture, and History/Études en archéologie, architecture et histoire (Catherine Sullivan, Parcs Canada, 1986)

The Battle of the Restigouche / La bataille de Ristigouche Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 16 (Judith Beattie and Bernard Pothier, Parks Canada, 1977)

The Battle of the Restigouche / La bataille de la Ristigouche Studies in Archaeology, Architecture, and History/Études en archéologie, architecture et histoire (Judith Beattie and Bernard Pothier, Parks Canada, 1996)

The Battle of the Restigouche Maritime Museum of Canada Occasional Paper No. 10 (C.H. Little, ed., 1962)

The excavation of the Machault, an 18th-century French frigate / Le recouvrement du Machault, une frégate française du XVIII^e siècle Studies in Archaeology, Architecture, and History/Études en archéologie, architecture et histoire (Walter Zacharchuk and Peter J.A. Waddell, Parks Canada, 1984)

Tin-Glazed Earthenware from the Machault Research Bulletin No. 13 (George A. Long, Parks Canada, March 1973)

Weaponry from the Machault : an 18th-century French frigate / L'armement du Machault Studies in Archaeology, Architecture, and History/Études en archéologie, architecture et histoire (Douglas Bryce, Parcs Canada, 1984)