Louisbourg

A seaport on the south-east coast of Cape Breton. Formerly

the chief stronghold of France in America. The fortress, named after

Louis XIV, was begun in 1790; twenty-five years were spent in fortifying

it; and the cost was estimated at thirty million livres. Captured by the

British under Pepperell and Warren in 1745; ceded back to France by the

treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle; and again captured by the British under

Amherst and Boscawen, in 1758. =Index=: (Wolfe / Montcalm era) Guards Gulf of St.

Lawrence, 17; composition of garrison, 30; capture of, 71; expedition

against Quebec, sails to, 85. (Samuel de Champlain era) Commonly known as Port aux Anglais,

236. See also Cape Breton; Boscawen; Wolfe; Amherst. =Bib.=: Parkman,

Half-Century of Conflict and Montcalm and Wolfe; Lettre d'un

Habitant, ed. by Wrong; Archibald, First Siege of Louisbourg (R. S.

C., 1887); Bourinot, Cape Breton and its Memorials; Wood, Logs of the

Conquest of Canada.