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Yankees at Louisbourg: The Story of the First Siege, 1745
Yankees at Louisbourg The Story of the First Siege 1745 Author:George A. Rawlyk This is considered the finest telling of the First Siege of the Fortress Louisbourg, in 1745--the victorious attack by rough New Englander troops on the French fortress. "The capture of Louisbourg in 1745 was the most important military achievement of the American colonists prior to the War of the Revolution," wrote historian L. E. DeForest.