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  2. Fortress of Louisbourg - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Louisbourg - Wikipedia

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    Nova Scotia: Municipality: Cape Breton Regional Municipality: English settlement: ... Climate data for Fortress of Louisbourg, 1981–2010 normals, extremes 1972 ...

  4. List of historic places in Cape Breton Regional Municipality

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    Kennington Cove, Fortress Louisbourg 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

  5. Louisbourg Garrison - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Siege of Louisbourg (1745) - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. Louisbourg Lighthouse - Wikipedia

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    The tower is a twin of the Georges Island Lighthouse in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Louisbourg lighthouse was destaffed in 1990. The lighthouse is a popular lookoff point and in 2008 became the start of a coastal walking trail, the Louisbourg Lighthouse Trail. Interpretive plaques mark the ruins of the previous lighthouses.

  8. King George's War - Wikipedia

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    Its most significant action was an expedition organized by Massachusetts Governor 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 known as the Troisième Guerre Intercoloniale or Third Intercolonial War. [1]

  9. Louisbourg Expedition (1757) - Wikipedia

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    The Louisbourg Expedition (1757) was a failed British attempt to capture the French Fortress of Louisbourg on Île Royale (now known as Cape Breton Island) during the Seven Years' War (known in the United States as the French and Indian War).

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