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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 is an unincorporated community and former town in Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia. History The ... Places Names of 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 Harbour, which had been selected by the French military for its year-round ice-free waters when building Fortress Louisbourg during the early to mid-18th century, again became a valuable port when a railway line was built from the mines at Reserve to Louisbourg in 1877. This line was poorly built and was soon lost to a forest fire.
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 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.
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.
The Swiss regiment de Karrer in the Louisbourg Garrison was a considerably complicating element in the town of Louisbourg due to its different organization than the French companies (operating as a larger unit with three subaltern officers and nearly 150 men under the command of a captaine-lieutenant) and its special status (notably in the area of judicial autonomy).