In 1758 the Fortress of Louisbourg falls and all of the civilian population of Isle Royal ( Cape Breton Island ) and Isle St. Jean ( Prince Edward Island ) are repatriated to France.

As an immediate result of this setback, France founded the powerful Fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island.

He is also the author of the novels Die Festung ( 1995 ) ( The Fortress ), based on travels home across France in 1944, and Der Abschied ( 2000 ) ( The Parting ), about the nuclear-powered cargo vessel NS Otto Hahn.

France retained its other pre-war North American possessions, including Île-Saint-Jean ( now Prince Edward Island ) as well as Île Royale ( now Cape Breton Island ), on which it erected the Fortress of Louisbourg.

In 1748 the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle returned the Fortress of Louibourg to France.

The campaign through Northern France and Belgium was largely a pursuit, with the ports-formally designated " Fortress Towns " by the Germans-offering only limited opposition to the First Canadian Army.

Despite a generally peaceful and prosperous administration, he was blamed for the fall of Fortress Louisbourg in 1745, and was recalled in 1746, returning to France to following year.

Susan Price, an Australian activist, argued that " the wedge-politics of racism has always been used to divide the working class, which in France pulled off spectacular rolling strikes against the government in 2003 ," adding that " the current attack must also be seen as part of a continuum of racist policies which go back to the mid-1990s and the ' Fortress Europe ' policies of the major European capitalist governments " designed " to appeal to the support base of Jean-Marie Le Pen's right-wing National Front ( FN ).

Langdon attended the local grammar school, run by a veteran of the 1745 Siege of Louisbourg against the French at Fortress Louisbourg in New France.

France starts building Fortress Louisbourg near the eastern tip of Île-Royale.

* October: Fortress Louisbourg and l ' Ile-Royale are returned to France by the Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle.

** 196 Eighth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress bombers escorted by 225 P-47 Thunderbolt fighters attack two German airfields in France with the loss of 12 B-17s and five P-47s.

On June 14, 1944, pilot Roy Allen and the crew of his B-17 Flying Fortress embarked on a mission over Nazi-occupied France.

Meanwhile, strong German infantry ( supported by the 9th Panzer Division ) had smashed through the so-called Peel-Raam Stelling and now marched rapidly through the southern province of Noord-Brabant, threatening to establish contact with the bridge head at Moerdijk and to enter ' Fortress Holland ' from the south, effectively isolating the Netherlands from Belgium and France.

McCright was a bombardier on a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber that was shot down over France on 23 January 1943.

In British phraseology, Fortress Europe meant the Battle honour accorded to Royal Air Force and allied squadrons during the Second World War, but to qualify, operations had to be made by aircraft based in the British Isles against targets in Germany, Italy and other parts of Nazi-occupied Europe, in the period from the fall of France to the Normandy invasion.

* Mannerheim Line at the Northern Fortress

The Grebbe Line was to be defended until the bitter end, as the eastern front of ' Fortress Holland ' ( the New Dutch Water Line, once the pride of the Dutch defence system ) was deemed obsolete and too close to major cities such as Utrecht and Amsterdam.

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress ( Osprey Production Line to Frontline 2 ).

In order to relieve overcrowding on the Island Line, the only rapid transit to serve the north shore of the island, the MTR Corporation and Highways Department have proposed the North Island Line, which would extend the Tung Chung Line underneath Hong Kong Island, eventually connecting to the Island Line at Fortress Hill, one stop east of Tin Hau.

Fortress Hill ( Chinese: 炮台山, literally Mount Battery ) is a station on the Island Line of the Hong Kong MTR system.

After initial fighting around the Meråker Line railway line, the Norwegians pulled back into Hegra Fortress and held off further German attacks before surrendering on 5 May as one of the last Norwegian units active in southern Norway.

During this time period Acadians participated in various militia operations against the British and maintained vital supply lines to the French Fortress of Louisbourg and Fort Beausejour.

In 1758, he took part in the major amphibious assault that captured the Fortress of Louisbourg from the French, after which he participated in the siege of Quebec City and then the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759.

* 1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: New England colonial troops under the command of William Pepperell capture the French Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia ( Old Style ).

* Fortress of Schoenenbourg, ( French / English / German / Italian )

* April 17 – WWII: Henri Giraud the French commander captured in 1940, escapes from Königstein Fortress.

* July 25 – Seven Years ' War – French and Indian War: The island battery at Fortress Louisbourg is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.

In the video game Team Fortress 2, the Spy class ( who is portrayed as French ) has an unlockable pistol called " L ' Etranger.

The most significant incident was the capture of the French Fortress Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island ( Île Royale ) by an expedition ( 29 April – 16 June 1745 ) of colonial militia organized by Massachusetts Governor William Shirley, commanded by William Pepperrell of Maine ( then part of Massachusetts ), and assisted by a Royal Navy fleet.

During this time period Acadians participated in various militia operations against the British and maintained vital supply lines to the French Fortress of Louisbourg and Fort Beausejour.

John Godwin argued that, given the apparent size and complexity of the pit, it was likely dug by French army engineers hoping to hide the contents of the treasury of the Fortress of Louisbourg after it fell to the British during the Seven Years ' War.

In the meantime, the French signalled their preparedness for future hostilities by beginning the construction of Fortress Louisbourg on Île Royale, now Cape Breton Island.

Construction of Fortress Louisbourg on Île Royale, a French military stronghold intended to protect the approaches to the St. Lawrence River settlements, began in 1719.

While the British Conquest of Acadia happened in 1710, the French continued to remain a significant force in the region with Fort Beausejour and Fortress Louisbourg.

The Fortress of Louisbourg () is 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.

The town's name was given by French military forces who founded the Fortress of Louisbourg in 1712 and its fortified seaport on the southwest part of the harbour, in honour of Louis XV.

Gridley was a military engineer during the French and Indian Wars from the reduction of Fortress Louisbourg in 1745 to the fall of Quebec.

The Man in the Iron Mask ( French: L ' Homme au Masque de Fer ) is a name given to a prisoner arrested as Eustache Dauger in 1669 or 1670, and held in a number of jails, including the Bastille and the Fortress of Pignerol ( today Pinerolo ).

The French rear was protected by the Fortress of Sedan, and offered a defensive position at Calvaire d ' Illy, which had both hills and woods to provide cover for any defense.

The first European settlers in the Tatamagouche area were the French Acadians, who settled the area in the early-18th century, and Tatamagouche became a transshipment point for goods bound for Fortress Louisbourg.

Tatamagouche and nearby Wallace, Nova Scotia were the first villages in Acadia to be burned because they were the gateway through which Acadians supplied the French Fortress Louisbourg.

After the British capture of Beausejour, the plan to capture Louisbourg included cutting trade to the Fortress in order to weaken the Fortress and, in turn, weaken the French ability to supply the Mi ' kmaq in their warfare against the British.

* Construction of Fortress Louisbourg by the French begins on Ile Royale ( Cape Breton Island ).