Louisbourg

Louisbourg is a Canadian city located in the province of Nova Scotia.

Fishing port to cod founded in 1713, Louisbourg lived peacefully during three decades in the capacity as seaport of the French colony. A fortress was built in 1719 to protect from the interests of France in the new world and to be used as center of operation for its industry of seasonal fishing.

Its geographical position enabled him to be used not only as capital of the new colony of the Royal Island (today the island of Cape-Breton the) but also to be the first line of defense at the 18th century at the time of the wars with the Great Britain for supremacy in North America.

The troops of the New England helped by the British Royal Navy seized the city in 1745 after 6 weeks of seat. After 3 years under British governorship, Louisbourg is returned by treaty in France (treated of Aachen). Peace was of short duration and, in 1758, after 6 new weeks of seat, the French governor Drucourt returns the keys of the city to the British of Edward Boscawen following the greatest attack of the Canadian colonial history.

The fortifications of Louisbourg were destroyed in 1760 and the small British garrison left the fortress later eight years. The stones of the fortress have ensuites re-used in constructions of new buildings in the area in Halifax and Sydney (in Nova Scotia).

The new town of Louisburg would then have been established by British and Irish soldiers having taken part in the second head office of Louisbourg with Quebec, joined soon by Loyalistes and new Irish.

In 1961, the government of the Canada undertook to rebuild a fifth of the historical city of Louisbourg in order to give work to the coal minors to unemployment and to make known the city in the form of a museum of alive history. Nowadays, the Forteresse of Louisbourg has statute of national historical place exploited by Parcs Canada and it offers to the visitor an outline life in a French fortress at the XVIIIe century.

See too

Station of Louisbourg

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