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Endgame 1758
The Promise, the Glory, and the Despair of Louisbourg's Last Decade
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The story of what happened at the colonial fortified town of Louisbourg between 1749 and 1758 is one of the great dramas of the history of Canada, indeed North America. The French stronghold on Cape Breton Island, strategically situated near the entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, was from soon after its founding a major possession in the quest for empire. The dramatic military and social history of this short-lived and significant fortress, seaport, and community, and the citizens who made it their home, are woven together in A. J. B. Johnstons gripping biography of the colonys final decade, presented from both French and British perspectives. Endgame 1758 is a tale of two empires in collision on the shores of mid-eighteenth-century Atlantic Canada, where rival European visions of predominance clashed headlong with each other and with the regions Aboriginal peoples. The magnitude of the struggle and of its uncertain outcome colored the lives of Louisbourgs inhabitants and the nearly thirty thousand combatants arrayed against it. The entire history comes to life in a tale of what turned out to be the first major British victory in the Seven Years War. How and why the French colony ended the way it did, not just in June and July 1758, but over the decade that preceded the siege, is a little-known and compelling story.
University of Nebraska Press; January 2008
383 pages; ISBN 9780803209862
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383 pages; ISBN 9780803209862
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Subject categories
- Academic > History > United States > Colonial history (1607-1775) > By period > 1689-1775 > French and Indian War, 1755-1763
- Academic > History > America > General
- History > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History > United States > 20th Century
- History > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
- History > Military > Vietnam War
- History > Far East
- History > Native American
- History > World
- History > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
- History > France
- History > Great Britain
- History > Europe
- History > Africa
- History > Australia & Oceania
- History > Colonial Studies
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9780803260092
9780803209862
080320986X