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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 of Île-Royale (present-day Cape Breton Island) during the War of the Austrian Succession, known as King George's War in the British colonies.
Acadia in the year 1743, with Tatamagouche at the north coast of the Acadian peninsula Cannon from Captain Fones' ship Tartar, Newport Historical Society. The action of 15 June 1745 (also known as the Battle of Famme Goose Bay [9]) was a naval encounter between three New England vessels and a French and native relief convoy en route to relieve the Siege of Louisbourg (1745) during King George ...
Colored engraving depicting the Siege of Louisbourg Following a 47-day siege, British forces captured the Fortress of Louisbourg in July 1745. The war was also fought on the frontiers between the northern British colonies and New France. Each side had allies among the Native Americans, and outlying villages were raided and captives taken for ...
Thomas Westbrook Waldron was a prominent political figure in Dover, New Hampshire, and a military officer that fought in the Siege of Louisbourg of 1745. [2] He later became a commissioner at Albany, New York, and then a royal councillor in 1782.
The Louisbourg Garrison (which constituted the bulk of the Île-Royale Garrison) was a French body of troops stationed at the Fortress of Louisbourg protecting the town of Louisbourg, Île-Royale on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. They were stationed there from 1717 to 1758, with the exception of a brief period (1745–1749) when the colony ...
The Louisburg expedition landed in Gabarus Bay on 1 May 1745 and siege works commenced at once (Siege of Louisbourg (1745). There being no professional British military engineers with the expedition, Pepperell wrote to Bastide at Annapolis, asking for help as quickly as possible. On 27 May, Bastide sailed to Louisbourg, arriving on 5 June.
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 Siege of Louisbourg (1758), the capture of the settlement by British forces during the Seven Years' War, after which it was permanently ceded to the British
The French raid was intended to boost morale, secure Louisbourg's supply lines with the surrounding Acadian settlements, and deprive Britain of a base from which to attack Louisbourg. While the settlement was utterly destroyed, the objective failed, since the British launched an attack on Louisbourg in 1745, using Canso as a staging area.