The Great Fortress: A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760, Vol. 08 (Classic Reprint)

PREFACE LOUIS BOURG was no mere isolated stronghold which could be lost or won w!thout affecting the wider issues of oversea dominion. On the contrary, it was a necessary link in the chain of waterside posts which connected France with America by way of the Atlantic, the St Lawrence, the Great Lakes, and the Mississippi. But since the chain itself and all its other links, and even the peculiar relation of Louisbourg to the Acadians and the Conquest, have been fully described elsewhere in the Chronicles of Canada, the present volume only tries to tell the purely individual tale. Strange to say, this tale seems never to have been told before; at least, not as one continuous whole. Of course, each siege has been described, over and over again, in many special monographs as 'well as in countless books about Canadian history. But seems to have written any separate work on Louisbourg showing causes, crises, and results, all together, in the light of the complete naval

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; Page; PREFACE d; I THE LAST SEA LINK WITH FRANCE 1720-1744 I; II THE SEA LINK LOST, 1745 24; III THE LINK RECOVERED, 1748 74; IV LOST FOR EVER, 1758 • 90; v ANNIHILATION, 1760 134; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 138; INDEX 140

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