In May 1744, before many of the English settlers in Nova Scotia had heard of the declaration of war, French forces from Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, attacked and captured Canso.
Held as a prisoner in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia for several months, he was eventually released and was made a captain on 19 December 1757.
Louisbourg Lighthouse is a historic Canadian lighthouse at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, and is the site of the first lighthouse in Canada.
The town's name was given by French military forces who founded the Fortress of Louisbourg in 1713 and its fortified seaport on the southwest part of the harbour, in honour of Louis XIV.
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Louisbourg is home to the Louisbourg Playhouse, a theatre company operating in an Elizabethan theatre that was used as a prop in the live action 1994 Disney film Squanto: A Warrior's Tale.
Owned by Ann Trenholm of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, by 1937 the Donald II was and was out of service and needed work to be made seaworthy as she hadn’t been under sail since her master's death.
The Princess of Wales’ Own Regiment, became allied on 15 July 1926 with the South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’ Volunteers) who count among their Battle Honours Louisburg and Niagara.
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In the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748), Madras was given back to the British in exchange for the French fortress of Louisbourg in North America, which the British had captured.
In 1748, the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, which ended the War of the Austrian Succession, restored Louisbourg to France in return for territory gained in the Austrian Netherlands and the British trading post at Madras in India.
This settlement was led by Michel Haché-Gallant, who used his sloop to ferry Acadian settlers from Louisbourg.
While it had quickly become the largest Royal Navy base on the Atlantic coast and had hosted large numbers of British army regulars, the complete destruction of Louisbourg in 1760 removed the threat of French attack.
By 1745, he was a chaplain on a ship of war at the various engagements between the sieges of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia.
He was a colonel in the continental army, serving at Louisbourg and at Fort Beauséjour.
Duc d'Anville Expedition or Louisbourg Expedition (1746), a French attempt to capture Louisbourg during the War of the Austrian Succession
The Louisbourg Garrison (which constituted the bulk of the Île-Royale Garrison) was a French body of troops stationed at the fortress protecting the town of Louisbourg, Île-Royale on Cape Breton Island.
The base was named in honour of Sir William Pepperrell (1696–1759) of Kittery, Maine, commander of a force of 4,200 soldiers and sailors aboard 90 ships, who captured the French seaport at Louisbourg after a 46-day siege on June 16, 1745.
In April 1746 Hopson arrived in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia with a number of reinforcements intending to relieve the existing British garrison.
A mutiny took place among the garrison at Fort Amherst in 1762, resulting in courts-martial at Louisbourg for the main people involved; demotions and hundreds of lashes by cat o'nine tails and one execution.
There was a Post Office 1881-1970 and it was established about 1850 as Louisbourg: formerly called Boucher Settlement for Eusèbe Boucher, Joseph Boucher and Antoine Boucher, who were early settlers in the area and in 1898 Saint-Norbert was a farming and lumbering settlement with 1 post office, 2 stores, 1 church and a population of 200.
Duc d'Anville Expedition (1746), a failed French attempt to capture Louisbourg