Louisbourg is an unincorporated community and former town in Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia. The French military founded the Fortress of...
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The Fortress of Louisbourg (French: Forteresse de Louisbourg) is a tourist attraction as a National Historic Site and the location of a one-quarter partial...
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Siege of Louisbourg may refer to: Siege of Louisbourg (1745), the capture of the settlement by British forces during the War of the Austrian Succession...
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The siege of Louisbourg was a pivotal operation of the French and Indian War in 1758 that ended French colonial dominance in Atlantic Canada and led to...
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The siege of Louisbourg took place in 1745 when a New England colonial force aided by a British fleet captured Louisbourg, the capital of the French province...
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Louisbourg Expedition may refer to: Duc d'Anville Expedition or Louisbourg Expedition (1746), a French attempt to capture Louisbourg during the War of...
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Cape Breton East (redirect from Sydney River-Mira-Louisbourg)
Cape Breton East (formerly Sydney River-Mira-Louisbourg) is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova...
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The Louisbourg Grenadiers was a temporary unit of grenadiers formed by General James Wolfe in 1759 to serve with British Army forces in the Quebec campaign...
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The Louisbourg Expedition (1757) was a failed British attempt to capture the French Fortress of Louisbourg on Île Royale (now known as Cape Breton Island)...
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Louisbourg Lighthouse is an active Canadian lighthouse in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia. The current tower is the fourth in a series of lighthouses that have...
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Shirley that besieged and ultimately captured the French fortress of Louisbourg, on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, in 1745. In French, it is known...
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to disastrous campaigns in 1757, including a failed expedition against Louisbourg and the Siege of Fort William Henry; this last was followed by the Natives...
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James Wolfe (section Louisbourg)
of an expedition to capture the Fortress of Louisbourg. Following the success of the siege of Louisbourg he was made commander of a force which sailed...
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operations and helped maintain supply lines to the French fortresses of Louisbourg and Beauséjour. As a result, the British sought to eliminate any future...
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on Lighthouse Point, at the Louisbourg Lighthouse, within the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site. The Louisbourg Lighthouse is the site of Canada’s...
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of Île Royale on Cape Breton Island, where they built the Fortress of Louisbourg. The population rose slowly but steadily. In 1754, New France's population...
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The Louisbourg Garrison (which constituted the bulk of the Île-Royale Garrison) was a French body of troops stationed at the Fortress of Louisbourg protecting...
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Action of 21 July 1781 (redirect from Naval battle of Louisbourg)
of 21 July 1781 (French: Combat naval en vue de Louisbourg, or Combat naval à la hauteur de Louisbourg) was a naval skirmish off the harbour of Spanish...
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Île-Royale (New France) (section Louisbourg)
regularly to fish cod. Louisbourg was founded in 1713. It was used as a fishing port for cod and had a readily defensible harbour. Louisbourg served peacefully...
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was involved in the capture of the French stronghold, the Fortress of Louisbourg in 1745. He moved to Menotomy, Massachusetts (present-day Arlington)....
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THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE AT THE FORTRESS OF LOUISBOURG 1713 - 1758. L'Institut de Louisbourg. Archived from the original on 2007-03-22. Retrieved...
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Maritime North America. Besides the construction of Acadian settlement of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, France was resolved to organize a colony on Isle...
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Pierre Morpain (section Port commander at Louisbourg)
years he participated as a military commander in the defence of Fortress Louisbourg during the 1745 siege. Pierre Morpain was born in Blaye, a community on...
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Capt Richard Jacques (1704, Newbury, Massachusetts – 1745, Louisbourg, Cape Breton); an American colonial officer who served during Father Rale's War....
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Britain in 1763. Île-Royale, later Cape Breton Island, with the Fortress of Louisbourg. Lost to Great Britain in 1763. Île Saint-Jean, later Prince Edward Island...
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Saint-Domingue. Detachment from the colonel's company was sent to the Louisbourg fortress in Acadia; 50 men in 1722, 100 men in 1724; 150 men from 1741...
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French surrender, Louisbourg was thoroughly destroyed by British engineers to ensure it would never be reclaimed. With the fall of Louisbourg, French and Mi'kmaw...
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William Shirley (section Siege of Louisbourg)
He is best known for his role in organizing the successful capture of Louisbourg during King George's War, and for his role in managing military affairs...
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Peter's) and then captured Fortress Louisbourg after a siege of six weeks. Weeks after the fall of Louisbourg, Donahew and Fones again engaged Marin...
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intended to relieve another French squadron which had been sailing to Louisbourg to provide relief to the defenders there, but had been forced into Cartagena...
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