Louisberg
...since I was young. Being from Cape Breton and having such a great history behind me, Louisburg was always a favorite place to visit when I was young. Visiting this 18th century town and looking at all the old buildings, seeing the colorful uniforms that the French wore, and by wearing red they would hassle you, and pretend that you are the British coming back to take over the fort again. Visiting the fort now you can see the way of life from the gentle side of things. During the tour they show you how they made bread and clothes and how they built their houses and kept warm during winter. It is a very friendly tour and you can get a good sense of what life was like back then.
Throughout this essay I will discus the significant events during the year of 1744, also the build up to the mutiny, and in 1745 the first siege of Louisburg. These years played a large part in the shaping of Fort Louisburg.
Louisburg was under construction in the 1720's. It enclosed an area of less than one hundred acres. During the early years of Louisburg harbor, before it was completed, many of the ships that landed to give building supplies were English from New England and Nova Scotia.
The site at which Louisburg was constructed was an ideal site for a fort, it was located in an inlet with a great harbor for shipping, fishing, and docking war vessels. The site was filled with hills and low-lying swampy areas. The main reason for choosing Louisburg to place the fort rather than the many other inlets in Cape Breton was upon realizing that Newfoundland could not remain a part of the French colonies, the French authorities became worried about safeguarding their fisheries in North America. Louisburg, for many, was a new hope for France at expanding their fisheries in the New World. The French wanted a place to relocate their colonists and to give them peaceful fishing...
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