The Capture of Louisbourg, 1758

by Hugh Boscawen

Book Overview

Volume 27 in the Campaigns and Commanders Series. A comprehensive account of the pivotal battle of the Seven Years' War Louisbourg, France's impressive fortress on Cape Breton Island's foggy Atlantic coast, dominated access to the St. Lawrence and colonial New France for forty years in the mid-eighteenth century. In 1755, Great Britain and France stumbled into the French and Indian War, part of what (to Europe) became the Seven Years' War-only for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806144130
• ISBN13: 9780806144139
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 506 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"