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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 reconstruction of an 18th-century French fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.
Louisbourg NS 45°52′42″N 60°03′31″W / 45.8783°N 60.0586°W / 45.8783; -60.0586 ( Wolfe's Landing National Historic Site of Federal ( 13556 )
Louisbourg Lighthouse is an active Canadian lighthouse in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia. The current tower is the fourth in a series of lighthouses that have been built on the site, the earliest was the first lighthouse in Canada .
The most recent in July 2008, commemorated the 250th anniversary of the first British siege victory over French forces in July 1758. [9] The town's more recent history is preserved at the Sydney and Louisburg Railway Museum located in the restored railway station in the centre of town.
The archaeological remains of the former fort are located in what is today Port La Tour,Shelburne, County Nova Scotia. The site of Fort St Louis was designated a National Historic Site in 1931. The Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada placed a cairn and plaque (dated 1937) commemorating the fort at a site in Port La Tour, Nova Scotia ...
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The chief engineer was John Henry Bastide who had been present at the first siege of Louisbourg in 1745 and was chief engineer at Fort St Philip, Minorca, in 1756 when the British had surrendered the fort and island to the French after a long siege. As they had in 1757, the French planned to defend Louisbourg by means of a large naval build-up.