Siege of Louisbourg (1758)
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The siege of Louisbourg was a pivotal operation of the Seven Years' War in 1758 that ended the French colonial era in Atlantic Canada and led to the subsequent British campaign to capture Quebec in 1759 and the remainder of French North America the following year.
Burning of the French ship Prudent and capture of Bienfaisant, during the siege of Louisbourg in 1758, Richard Paton
Major General Jeffery Amherst was tasked with the capture of the French Fortress of Louisbourg
English propaganda against New France and Louisbourg, 1755
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
Fortress of Louisbourg
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The Fortress of Louisbourg is a tourist attraction as a National Historic Site and the location of a one-quarter partial reconstruction of an 18th-century French fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Its two sieges, especially that of 1758, were turning points in the Anglo-French struggle for what today is Canada.
Diorama of the Fortress of Louisbourg in 1758
Colored engraving depicting the Siege of Louisbourg
The Louisbourg Cross, on permanent loan to the fortress since 1995
The Government of Canada rebuilt one-fifth of the town, and its fortifications; the multi-year work commenced in 1963.