* 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.

* July 9 – The naval settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia is founded as the British answer to Louisbourg.

In 1757 he was posted to the Célèbre and participated in a supply expedition to the fort of Louisbourg in New France ; its position is in present-day Nova Scotia.

Sydney's accommodation sector is centrally located to attractions in Louisbourg ( home of the Fortress of Louisbourg ), Glace Bay ( home of the Glace Bay Miners Museum ), Baddeck ( home of the Alexander Graham Bell Museum ), as well as popular touring destinations such as the Cabot Trail, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, and Bras d ' Or Lake.

Amherst is best known as one of the victors of the French and Indian War, when he conquered Louisbourg, Quebec City and Montreal.

He gained experience organizing military expeditions during King George's War when he assembled many of the elements of the New England expedition that successfully captured Fortress Louisbourg in 1745, one of the feats for which he is best known.

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.

This cross was rediscovered in the Harvard University archives only in the latter half of the 20th century ; it is now on long-term loan to the Louisbourg historic site.

Today, the entire site of the fortress, including the one-quarter reconstruction, is Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site, operated by Parks Canada as part of the national park system.

Louisbourg is an unincorporated community located in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality.

The historic 18th century Fortress Louisbourg is also a major draw.

There is some indication that his wounding at Louisbourg may have been at the hands of his own men.

* Louisbourg is returned to France by the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle.

* Halifax, capital of Nova Scotia, is founded by British General Edward Cornwallis to counter French presence at Louisbourg.

Louisbourg is home to Fortress of Louisbourg, the largest historical reconstruction in North America.

He is widely remembered for organizing, financing, and leading the 1745 expedition that captured the French garrison at Fortress Louisbourg during King George's War.

Note that the spelling of the name " Louisburg " is different from the spelling of the harbour and town of " Louisbourg ", which follows the French naming found in Fortress Louisbourg.

Cornwallis took part in a number of decisive battles including the Siege of Louisbourg in 1758 and the Battle of the Saintes but is best known as a friend to Nelson and as the Commander-in-chief of the Channel Fleet during the Napoleonic war.

The American troops had signed up to capture Louisbourg, and expected to go home after siege ended.

In 1746, as the American occupation troops were finally able to return home from Louisbourg, the British government decided to attack Canada that year.

Louisbourg was also home to six bastions, two of which are reconstructed.

In August 1758 Rodney sailed for home in charge of six warships and ten transports carrying the captured garrison of Louisbourg who were being taken to Britain as prisoners of war.

The peace settlement brought the return of Madras to the British company, exchanged for Louisbourg in Canada.

Shortly after he was named captain of a company in the provincial regiment of Andrew Burr ( uncle to future United States Vice President Aaron Burr ), and saw service at that year's Siege of Louisbourg.

In Louisbourg, the canoniers-bombardiers company ( artillery company ) was established in 1743.

Two soldiers were chosen from each company stationed at the Louisbourg Garrison, to be trained by the master gunner at firing and aiming cannons.

The Louisbourg artillery company was composed of 13 canoniers, 12 bombardiers, one drummer, two corporals and two sergeants, led by a lieutenant and a captain.

In 1973, the Sydney and Louisburg Railway Historical Society was created by retired employees of that company to assist with the tourist railway and to preserve the Louisbourg station.

Anne experienced icing problems, it was decided to construct a much larger fortification at Louisbourg to improve defences at the entrance to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and defend France's fishing fleet on the Grand Banks.

Louisbourg itself was one of the most important commercial and military centres in New France.

Although Louisbourg was captured by New Englanders with British naval assistance in 1745 and by the British again in 1758, Île Royale remained formally part of colonial France until it was ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Paris in 1763.

In the 1960s, the Fortress of Louisbourg was partially reconstructed by Parks Canada.

In 1749, to counter the rising threat of Louisbourg, Halifax was founded and the Royal Navy established a major naval base and citadel.

In 1758, the fortress of Louisbourg was laid siege for a second time within 15 years, this time by more than 27, 000 British soldiers and sailors with over 150 warships.

After the French surrender, Louisbourg was thoroughly destroyed by British engineers to ensure it would never be reclaimed.

The centrepiece of the campaign in North America, an expedition to capture Louisbourg was aborted due to the presence of a large French fleet and a gale that scattered the British fleet.

After the disastrous 1757 British campaigns ( resulting in a failed expedition against Louisbourg and the Siege of Fort William Henry, which was followed by Indian torture and massacres of British victims ), the British government fell.

The great French fortress at Louisbourg in Nova Scotia was captured after a siege.

Abercrombie was recalled and replaced by Jeffery Amherst, victor at Louisbourg.

In 1760 he was in command of a squadron sent to destroy the fortifications at Louisbourg, which had been captured by the British two years before.

The British had planned an attempt on Louisbourg but the operation was called off, and they sailed instead for winter quarters in New York.

Although an expedition to seize the strategic French settlement of Louisbourg was launched by New Englanders in 1745, no further attacks were attempted on Spanish possessions.

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.

Louisbourg was returned to France in exchange for Madras, generating much anger among the British colonists, who felt they had eliminated a nest of privateers with its capture.

The following year he took part in an expedition against the French fortress of Louisbourg, and in 1758 he was wounded in a failed assault on Fort Ticonderoga.

Louisbourg was intended to serve as a year-round military and naval base for France's remaining North American empire and to protect the entrance to the St. Lawrence River.

Lapérouse also was in a second supply expedition in 1758 to Louisbourg, but that was in the early years of the seven years ' war ; the fort was under siege and the expedition was forced to make a circuitous route around Newfoundland to avoid British patrols.

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.