Louis bourg

A seaport on the south-east coast of Cape Breton. Formerly the chief stronghold of France in America. The fortre , named after Louis XIV, was begun in 1790; twenty-five years were spent in fortifying it; and the cost was estimated at thirty million livres. Captured by the British under Pepper ell and Warren in 1745; ceded back to France by the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle; and again captured by the British under Amherst and Boscawen, in 1758. Index : WM Guards Gulf of St. Lawrence, 17; composition of garrison, 30; capture of, 71; expedition against Quebec, sails to, 85. Ch Commonly known as Port aux Anglais, 236. See also Cape Breton; Boscawen; Wolfe; Amherst. Bib. : Parkman, Half-Century of Conflict and Montcalm and Wolfe ; Lettre d'un Habitant , ed. by Wrong; Archibald, First Siege of Louis bourg (R. S. C., 1887); Bourinot, Cape Breton and its Memorials ; Wood, Logs of the Conquest of Canada .