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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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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settlement was burned the first day the British landed during the Siege of Louisbourg (1745). The French were terrorized and abandoned the Grand Battery,...
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The siege of Louisbourg was a pivotal operation of the Seven Years' War (known in the United States as the French and Indian War) in 1758 that ended the...
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Samuel Whittemore (category People of Massachusetts in the American Revolution)
War (1744–48). He was involved in the capture of the French stronghold, the Fortress of Louisbourg in 1745. He moved to Menotomy, Massachusetts (present-day...
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Naval battle off Tatamagouche (category 1745 in military history)
relief convoy en route to relieve the Siege of Louisbourg (1745) during King George's War. The French and native convoy of four French vessels and fifty native...
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John Henry Bastide (category British Army personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession)
in the early history of Nova Scotia. He was the chief engineer at both of the sieges of Louisbourg (1745 and 1758) and the siege of Minorca (1756). Bastide...
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John Gorham (military officer) (category Military history of Acadia)
Gorham fought alongside his father in the Siege of Louisbourg (1745). His father died just after the siege, apparently from natural causes. Gorham received...
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Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Richard Edwards 16 June 1745 - After a six-week siege, the French fort of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island falls to the British colonial...
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Many of those who first established Halifax arrived from Cape Breton, which the British of New England occupied since their Siege of Louisbourg (1745). The...
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Edward Tyng (category Military history of Nova Scotia)
transports in the successful Siege of Louisbourg (1745). He participated in the Capture of the Vigilant and the destruction of Port Dauphin (Englishtown...
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Battle of Cartagena de Indias - March 1740 King George's War Siege of Louisbourg - 1745 French and Indian War Siege of Louisbourg - 1758 Battle of Beauport...
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campaign (1745) occurred during King George's War from 19 July until 5 September 1745. Three weeks after the British Siege of Louisbourg (1745), the Wabanaki...
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reconstruction of an 18th-century French fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Its two sieges, especially that of 1758, were turning...
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one prisoner. The siege was ended when Marin was recalled to assist with defending the French during the Siege of Louisbourg (1745) and commodore Edward...
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(1745) – War of the Austrian Succession Siege of Louisbourg (1745) – War of the Austrian Succession (King George's War) Siege of Port Toulouse (1745)...
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Jonathan Prescott (category History of Nova Scotia)
Prescott was a British officer who fought at the Siege of Louisbourg (1745), became the Captain of the militia at Chester, Nova Scotia and later was...
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Breton). In 1745, British colonial forces conducted the siege of Port Toulouse (St. Peter's) and then captured Fortress Louisbourg after a siege of six weeks...
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Jedidiah Preble (category People of Father Le Loutre's War)
(present-day Portland, Maine). He served in the Siege of Louisbourg (1745). He also fought in the Battle of Grand Pre (1747). He accompanied John Winslow...
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Charles Pelerain. During the siege of 1745, the French officer Marin was required to withdraw from siege to protect Louisbourg from a British attack. He...
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Quebec (redirect from Province of Quebec)
Acadians. In the siege of Louisbourg (1745), the British were victorious, but returned the city to France after war concessions. The last of the four French...
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Canso, Nova Scotia (section Siege of Louisbourg)
org. 1859. Drake. Siege of Louisbourg 1745, p.77. Note: some primary sources indicate the name was Fort Cumberland. Akins, History of Halifax. p. 18 Wicken...
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Richard Jacques (military officer) (category 1745 deaths)
Merriconeag Neck (1727). He served in the Siege of Louisbourg (1745). He was the commander of the 8th Company of the Second Massachusetts Regiment under...
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Samuel Waldo (category People of King George's War)
George's War, he served as brigadier-general in the reduction on Louisbourg Fortress in 1745 and served on the temporary council that administered the settlement...
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York, Maine (section Sites of interest)
French defeat at the Siege of Louisbourg (1745), and ceased altogether with the 1763 Treaty of Paris. As provincial capital and site of the Royal Gaol (Jail)...
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Amphibious warfare (section The War of Jenkin's Ear)
The Siege of Louisbourg (1745) took place in 1745 when a New England colonial force aided by a small British fleet captured Louisbourg, the capital of the...
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Cape Breton Island (redirect from List of people from Cape Breton Island)
centres in New France. Louisbourg was captured by New Englanders with British naval assistance in the Siege of Louisbourg (1745) and by British forces...
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George's War, he fought in the Siege of Louisbourg (1745). During the French and Indian War, he also fought at the Battle of Lake George as Lieutenant-Colonel...
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Tatamagouche (section Expulsion of the Acadians)
goods bound for Fortress of Louisbourg. During King George's War, New England was engaged in the Siege of Louisbourg (1745) in their efforts to defeat...
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largest population throughout the French occupation of the Island. After the Siege of Louisbourg (1745) during King George's War, the New Englanders also...
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