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Louisbourg 1758: Wolfe's first siege (Campaign)
Louisbourg represented a major threat to Anglo-American plans to invade Canada. Bypassing it would leave an immensely powerful enemy base astride the Anglo-American lines of communication – Louisbourg had to be taken. Faced with strong beach defences and rough weather, it took six days to land the troops, and it was only due to a stroke of daring on the part of a young brigadier named James Wolfe, who managed to turn the French beach position, that this was achieved. The story is largely based on firsthand accounts from the journals of several participants, including French Governor Drucour's, whose excellent account has never been published..
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French Fortresses in North America 1535-1763: "Québec, Montréal, Louisbourg and New Orleans" (Fortress)
Following the discovery of America by Columbus in 1492, European colonists brought their system of fortification to the New World in an attempt to ensure their safety and consolidate their conquests. French and British explorers came later to North America, and thus the establishment of their sizeable settlements only got under way during the 17th century. The inhabitants of New France built elaborate fortifications to protect their towns and cities. This book provides a detailed examination of the defenses of four of them: Québec, Montréal and Louisbourg in Canada, and New Orleans in Louisiana..
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Louisbourg Portraits
Each year, thousands of tourists flock to the Fortress of Louisbourg on the coast of Cape Breton Island to visit the reconstruction of part of the original eighteenth-century fort and town. Using the same records, diaries, letters, and charts that were used to recreate the site, Moore restores to vivid life five people who actually walked the streets of the colony over two hundred years ago. First published in 1982, this bestselling book of fascinating true stories represents what historian Desmond Morton calls “social history as it should be written.”.
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Louisbourg: The Novel
Marie Gauthier is taken from her ancestral Acadian home by the English As a prisoner with the women and children of her village, she survives a wreck of the British warship ferrying the Acadians to their diaspora. Along with other survivors, Marie makes a difficult overland journey to the safety of Louisbourg. Taken in by the governor’s wife, she makes a desperate search for her lost family. Marie suffers with French citizens and soldiers under the British siege of the fortress. At Government House she finds an unlikely attraction to a young Scottish emissary of the British, rivaling her attraction to French Brevet Captain Renau. Born under a sentence of death, Charles MacGregor could never set foot in Scotland. With no money and little opportunity, he joins the British Navy. The Navy of 1750 cares little for a man’s background; it cares only if a man is an able sailor and brave in battle. At Sea, on a British frigate, MacGregor proves he is one of the best. Educated at Versailles, his fluent French wins him an appointment as emissary to the governor of Louisbourg. While delivering surrender demands, he finds a strange attraction to Marie Gauthier. Step back in time to the days of wooden warships and life in the besieged fortress of Louisbourg....
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Endgame 1758: The Promise, the Glory, and the Despair of Louisbourg's Last Decade (France Overseas: Studies in Empire and D)
The story of what happened at the colonial fortified town of Louisbourg between 1749 and 1758 is one of the great dramas of the history of Canada, indeed North America The French stronghold on Cape Breton Island, strategically situated near the entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, was from soon after its founding a major possession in the quest for empire. The dramatic military and social history of this short-lived and significant fortress, seaport, and community, and the citizens who made it their home, are woven together in A. J. B. Johnston’s gripping biography of the colony’s final decade, presented from both French and British perspectives. Endgame 1758 is a tale of two empires in collision on the shores of mid-eighteenth-century Atlantic Canada, where rival European visions of predominance clashed headlong with each other and with the region’s Aboriginal peoples. The magnitude of the struggle and of its uncertain outcome colored the lives of Louisbourg’s inhabitants and the nearly thirty thousand combatants arrayed against it. The entire history comes to life in a tale of what turned out to be the first major British victory in the Seven Years’ War. How and why the French colony ended the way it did, not just in June and July 1758, but over the decade that preceded the siege, is a little-known and compelling story. (20081001).
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