Charles Hardy
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Admiral of the White Sir Charles Hardy was a Royal Navy officer, politician and colonial administrator who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain between 1764 and 1780. He served as governor of
Portrait by George Romney, 1780
Siege of Louisbourg (1758)
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The siege of Louisbourg was fought during the Seven Years' War on Cape Breton Island between an attacking British force and defending French and Mi'kmaq troops. The French attempted to send reinforcem
Charles Hardy
…Louisbourg was found to be strongly defended by a French fleet. The next year, he was second in command under Admiral Edward Boscawen at the successful Siege of Louisbourg. That autumn, he and James Wolfe attacked French posts around the mouth of the St. Lawrence River and destroyed all of the French fishing stations along…
1758 painting of the siege
Major General Jeffery Amherst was tasked with the capture of the French Fortress of Louisbourg
The fall of Louisbourg brought a second wave of the Acadian expulsion, as the British engaged in a series of campaigns to deport the Acadians
French cannons captured from Louisbourg in Toronto