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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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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1759 and the remainder of New France the following year. The British government realized that with the Fortress of Louisbourg under French control, the...
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Samuel Whittemore (category People of Massachusetts in the American Revolution)
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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King George's War (category Wars of succession involving the states and peoples of Europe)
William Shirley that besieged and ultimately captured the French fortress of Louisbourg, on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, in 1745. In French, it is...
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James Wolfe (redirect from Bibliography of James Wolfe)
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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"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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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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Katharine McLennan (category Officers of the Order of Canada)
volunteerism during World War I, in supporting the reconstruction of the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site, and in aiding community organizations...
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