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Louisbourg, the recreated, 18th-century French fortress on Canada's Cape Breton Island, comes alive as never before this summer, with historical re-enactments, concerts, festivals, fireworks and tall ...

THE Peace of Utrecht left unsettled the perilous questions of boundary in North America, and they grew more perilous every day. Yet the quarrel between the rival powers was not quite ripe, and though ...

GATINEAU, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - Dec 6, 2013) - Library and Archives Canada has acquired a two-part manuscript diary about the 1758 siege of Louisbourg in Cape Breton. The siege, a substantial battle ...

When we think about the military men from Worcester who have died on the battlefield, let’s not forget Benjamin Gleason, who fell before the massive walls of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, in June 1745. The ...

LOUISBOURG, NOVA SCOTIA—Underwater archaeologists are investigating as many as ten wrecks of eighteenth-century French warships in the waters off the coast of Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic ...

ON board one of the transports was Seth Pomeroy, gunsmith at Northampton, and now major of Willard’s Massachusetts regiment. He had a turn for soldiering, and, ten years later, fought in the battle of ...