Download or read book Yankees at Louisbourg written by George A. Rawlyk and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The best and fullest account of the first siege of Louisbourg,” wrote historian W.S. MacNutt. The reader is there for the planning and the rabble-rousing and the day-by-day details of this essential event in Canadian history and in Americanconsciousness. L.E. DeForest called “the capture of Louisbourg in 1745 the most important military achievement of the American Colonists prior to the War of the Revolution.” Told in considerable depth and detail, this extremely readable book accounts for and describes that colonial achievement, and George Rawlyk’s telling is considered the most complete and best book on the subject.“An excellent, fair, comprehensive history of the 1745 Siege of Louisbourg.” — Goodreads

Download or read book First Siege and Capture of Louisbourg 1745 written by Sir Adams George Archibald and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The First Siege of Louisburg 1745 written by Henry Moore Baker and published by Concord, N.H. : Rumford Press. This book was released on 1909 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Taking of Louisburg 1745 written by Samuel Adams Drake and published by Boston : Lee and Shepart. This book was released on 1890 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Louisbourg 1758 written by René Chartrand and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisbourg represented a major threat to Anglo-American plans to invade Canada. Bypassing it would leave an immensely powerful enemy base astride the Anglo-American lines of communication – Louisbourg had to be taken. Faced with strong beach defences and rough weather, it took six days to land the troops, and it was only due to a stroke of daring on the part of a young brigadier named James Wolfe, who managed to turn the French beach position, that this was achieved. The story is largely based on firsthand accounts from the journals of several participants, including French Governor Drucour's, whose excellent account has never been published.

Download or read book The Taking of Louisburg 1745 written by Samuel Adams Drake and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book narrates the siege of Louisbourg by British forces in 1745 during the War of the Austrian Succession. It provides a detailed and exciting account of the events that led to the capture of the strategic French stronghold and the consequences of this victory for the British Empire. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book A Campaign of Amateurs written by Raymond F. Baker and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Louisbourg Expedition of 1745 written by Everett Pepperrell Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Louisbourg in 1745 written by University Of Toronto and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Louisbourg in 1745: The Anonymous Lettre D'un Habitant De Louisbourg (Cape Breton), Containing a Narrative by an Eye-Witness of the Siege in 1745; Edited With an English Translation The siege and capture of Louisbourg in Cape Breton in 1745 by New England militia, supported by a British fleet, was the first important event in America in the renewed war between Great Britain and France after the long peace which Walpole had succeeded in maintaining. On May the French seized the fishing station of Canso, opposite to Cape Breton on the Nova Scotian coast, and this was the first inti mation which the English colonies received that war had broken out. They were greatly stirred by the news. French privateers soon made their commerce unsafe, and the bold plan was conceived of sending a militia force in the early spring of 1745 to attack the French fortress Of Louisbourg. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The First Siege of Louisbourg 1745 written by Henry M. Baker and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Frigates and Foremasts written by Julian Gwyn and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of naval operations involving North American squadrons in Nova Scotia waters, Frigates and Foremasts offers a masterful analysis of the motives behind the deployment of Royal Navy vessels between 1745 and 1815, and the navy’s role on the Western Atlantic. Interweaving historical analysis with vivid descriptions of pivotal events from the first siege of Louisbourg in 1745 to the end of the wars with the United States and France in 1815, Julian Gwyn illuminates the complex story of competing interests among the Admiralty, Navy Board, sea officers, and government officials on both sides of the Atlantic. In a gripping narrative encompassing sea battles, impressments, and privateering, Gwyn brings to life key events and central figures. He examines the role of leadership and the lack of it, not only of seagoing heroes from Peter Warren to Philip Broke, but also of land-based officials, such as the various Halifax naval yard commissioners, whose important contributions are brought to light. Gwyn’s brilliant evocation of people and events, and the scholarship he brings to bear on the subject makes Frigates and Foremasts a uniquely authoritative history. Wonderfully readable, it will attract both the serious naval historian and the general reader interested in the ‘why’ and ‘what’ of naval history on North America's eastern seaboard.

Download or read book New Englanders Take Louisbourg 1745 written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Louisbourg Journals 1745 written by Louis Effingham De Forest and published by New York : Compiled for and published by the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York. This book was released on 1932 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Englanders Take Louisbourg 1745 written by Ronald Caplan and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Campaign of Amateurs written by Raymond F. Baker and published by Parks Canada. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the 1745 siege of the Louisbourg fortress on Cape Breton is based on research in the Louisbourg archives. It reviews the reasons for a New England expedition to capture the fortress, the recruitment of a force of essentially unexperienced militia, the state of the French forces and fortifications at Louisbourg, the various stages of the siege, the effects of the attacker's batteries and the French countermeasures, the relations between the various siege commanders, and the eventual surrender of the fortress. The study ends with a discussion of the possible reasons for the outcome. The appendix contains a chronology, a copy of the Massachusetts governor's scheme for attacking Louisbourg, the governor's instructions to the expedition commander, and terms of the surrender of June 1745.

Download or read book The Taking of Louisburg 1745 written by Samuel Adams Drake and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... afterthoughts And now comes the strangest part of the story. We get quite accustomed to thinking of the American colonies as the football of European diplomacy, our reading of history has fully prepared us for that: but we are not prepared to find events in the New World actually shaping the course of those in the Old. In a word, England lost the battle in Europe, -but won it in America. France was confounded at seeing the key to Canada in the hands of the enemy she had just beaten. England and France were like two duellists who have had a scuffle, in the course of which they have exchanged weapons. Instead of dictating terms, France had to compromise matters. For the sake of preserving her colonial possessions, she now had to give up her dearbought conquests on the continent of Europe. Hostilities were suspended. All the belligerents I agreed to restore what they had taken from each other, and cry quits; but it is plain that France would never have consented to such a settlement at a time when her adversaries were so badly crippled, when all England was in a ferment, and she hurrying back her troops from Holland in order to put down rebellion at home, thus leaving the coalition of which she was the head to stand or fall without her. France would not have stayed her victorious march, we think, under such circumstances as these, unless the nation's attention had been forcibly recalled to the gravity of the situation in America. In some respects this episode of history recalls the story of the mailed giant, armed to the teeth, and of the stripling with his sling. As all the conquests of this war were restored by the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, Cape Breton went to France again. Thus had New England made herself felt across the Atlantic by an...

Download or read book The First Conquest of Louisbourg 1745 written by Koenigsberg, Joanna and published by San Francisco : J. Koenigsberg. This book was released on 1980 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: