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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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    Louisbourg is an unincorporated community and former town in Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia. The French military founded the Fortress...
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    and the remainder of French North America the following year. The British government realized that with the Fortress of Louisbourg under French control...
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    other (See the Northeast Coast Campaigns of 1688, 1703, 1723, 1724). For the French, the Fortress of Louisbourg also protected the chief entrance to Canada...
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    of 64, once again assisting in the capture of the Fortress of Louisbourg, and later in a military expedition against Chief Pontiac in 1763. None of them...
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    second-in-command 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...
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    goals of destroying the fortress of Louisbourg and weakening the Mi'kmaq and Acadian militias, the result of the Expulsion was the devastation of both...
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    campaign of the Seven Years' War. Grenadiers from the 22nd, 40th, and 45th regiments were brought together by Wolfe at the Fortress of Louisbourg in Nova...
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    where they built the Fortress of Louisbourg. The population rose slowly but steadily. In 1754, New France's population consisted of 10,000 Acadians, 55...
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    "The Town Guard". THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE AT THE FORTRESS OF LOUISBOURG 1713 - 1758. L'Institut de Louisbourg. Archived from the original on 2007-03-22...
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