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...

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)...

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...

The siege of Louisbourg was a pivotal operation of the Seven Years' War (known in the United States as the French and Indian War) in 1758 that ended the...

in a supply expedition to the fort of Louisbourg in New France. Lapérouse also took part in a second supply expedition in 1758 to Louisbourg, but as it...

fell due to disastrous campaigns in 1757, including a failed expedition against Louisbourg and the Siege of Fort William Henry; this last was followed...

Lord Loudon in the Louisbourg Expedition (1757). The British would succeed however the following year in the Siege of Louisbourg (1758). In 1766, as...

Louisbourg. Both France and New France were unable to relieve the siege, and Louisbourg fell to the British. With the famed Duc d'Anville Expedition,...

of 21 July 1781 (French: Combat naval en vue de Louisbourg, or Combat naval à la hauteur de Louisbourg) was a naval skirmish off the harbour of Spanish...

l'acquisition de documents historiques importants concernant le siège de Louisbourg de 1758". Library and Archives Canada. December 6, 2013. "Siège de Québec...

him second-in-command of an expedition to capture the Fortress of Louisbourg. Following the success of the siege of Louisbourg he was made commander of a...

Fortress Louisbourg by deporting the Acadians, thus cutting off supplies to the fort. During the expulsion, French Officer Charles Deschamps de Boishébert...

the Siege of Louisbourg because French Officer Chevalier de Johnstone indicated that he saw Cope at Miramichi after the Siege of Louisbourg when Johnstone...

The Duc d'Anville expedition (June – October 1746) was sent from France to recapture Louisbourg and take peninsular Acadia (present-day mainland Nova...

the action was to deny Louisbourg any chance of relief, and it surrendered later in the year. He died in 1778 in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine. Duquesne University...

case. The Swiss regiment de Karrer in the Louisbourg Garrison was a considerably complicating element in the town of Louisbourg due to its different organization...

d'Anville was transported to Louisbourg in 1748. Taillemite, Étienne (1974). "La Rochefoucauld de Roye, Jean-Baptiste Louis Frédéric de". In Halpenny, Francess...

was an expedition organized by Massachusetts Governor William Shirley that besieged and ultimately captured the French fortress of Louisbourg, on Cape...

he sailed on the famous and ill-fated Duc d'Anville Expedition, intended to retake Louisbourg (now in Nova Scotia) from the English in King George's...

embarked on the fleet of François de Vendôme, Duc de Beaufort for the expedition of Djidjelli (French: expédition de Djidjelli), before passing at the...

the French supply lines to Louisbourg. The British forcibly relocated 12,000 French-speakers. Two additional expeditions from Albany each failed to reach...

administrative and military headquarters in Acadia. After the first Siege of Louisbourg in May–June 1745, a British force composed largely of New England irregulars...

Peter's) and then captured Fortress Louisbourg after a siege of six weeks. France launched a major expedition to recover Acadia in 1746. Beset by storms...

Philippe Pastour de Costebelle (ca. 1661 – October 1717) was a French naval officer and Governor of Newfoundland and then Louisbourg. He was born in Languedoc...

capitulation of Louisbourg in 1758. The first European settlers in the area were French military personnel from Fortress Louisbourg who founded a settlement...

of Louisbourg (1745 and 1758) and the siege of Minorca (1756). Bastide was born about 1700, the son of a French military officer, Colonel Armand de la...

He is best known for his role in organizing the successful capture of Louisbourg during King George's War, and for his role in managing military affairs...

who led the French defence in the Siege of Louisbourg. He was a son of Jean-Louis de Boschenry, Baron de Drucourt and Marie-Louise Godard. Drucour joined...

the first occasion. During this venture he was present at the Siege of Louisbourg. This siege consisted of a New England colonial force, aided by a British...

years he participated as a military commander in the defence of Fortress Louisbourg during the 1745 siege. Pierre Morpain was born in Blaye, a community on...