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The town, an ice-free port, is near the site of the great fortress of Louisbourg, built by France as its Gibraltar in America. Plans were drawn by the great French engineer Vauban, but the work was poorly done, and the garrison was inadequately supplied and at odds with the civilian population. French privateers, using the harbor as a base, preyed on New England fishermen working the Grand Banks, until 1745, when a small force of New Englanders under William Pepperrell, supported by a fleet of merchantmen commanded by Sir Peter Warren, attacked Louisbourg and forced its surrender. Three years later it was returned to France by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, in exchange for Madras, India, but it fell to a British land and sea attack led by Gen. Jeffery Amherst and Admiral Boscawen, which reduced it to ruins.
The site is a national historic park, and reconstruction of a portion of the fortified town is completed.
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Louisbourg Harbour Inn B&B
Louisbourg, Nova Scotia |
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 This century-old Louisbourg sea captain's house, in which the innkeeper himself was raised, was built by Captain Thomas Townsend, a descendant of a prominent officer who fought in the second siege of Louisbourg in 1758 and who was later granted this ..... [ more
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