Please read the "legal small print," and other information about theĮBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project This or any other Project Gutenberg eBook. Be sure to check theĬopyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Great Fortress, by William WoodĬopyright laws are changing all over the world. In that year the town was returned to the French and for the next decade flourished as a commercial centre. Most of the inhabitants were sent to France and Louisbourg was garrisoned by New England and then English troops until 1749. After a siege of seven weeks the garrison and civilian population surrendered. In 1745, the Fortress community was attacked by a rag tag New England military force supported by an English naval contingent. Louisbourg was a community of homes, warehouses, gardens, wharfs, a massive barracks, royal storehouse, lighthouse, careening facility and monumental entrance gates. The community of 1200 civilians was protected by stone fortification walls and a garrison of 500 soldiers employed by the Department of the Marine and managed by a hierarchy including a governor and civil administrator with the associated bureaucracies. It was the center of the lucrative cod fishery and a mercantile shipping point between Europe and the New World with regular commercial contact with France, the West Indies, Quebec and New England. Louisbourg was a French fortified town from 1713 to 1758 and the capital of the colony of Ile Royale. LOUISBOURG HISTORY:Acadia:Acadian Ancestral Home
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