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                 _Decisive Events in American History_




                                  THE
                          TAKING OF LOUISBURG
                                  1745


                                   BY
                           SAMUEL ADAMS DRAKE
              AUTHOR OF “BURGOYNE’S INVASION OF 1777” ETC.


                            BOSTON MDCCCXCI
                       LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS
           10 MILK STREET NEXT “THE OLD SOUTH MEETING HOUSE”
                      NEW YORK CHAS. T. DILLINGHAM
                          718 AND 720 BROADWAY

                            Copyright, 1890,
                          By Lee and Shepard.




                                CONTENTS


  CHAPTER                                                            PAGE
  I. Colonial Seacoast Defences                                         9
  II. Louisburg Revisited                                              13
  III. Louisburg to Solve Important Political and Military Problems    24
  IV. Résumé of Events to the Declaration of War                       33
  V. “Louisburg must be taken”                                         46
  VI. The Army and its General                                         59
  VII. The Army at Canso                                               73
  VIII. The Siege                                                      80
  IX. The Siege Continued                                             101
  X. Afterthoughts                                                    126

    [Illustration: ISLAND BATTERY, WITH LOUISBURG IN THE DISTANCE.]




                        THE TAKING OF LOUISBURG
                                  1745




                                   I
                       COLONIAL SEACOAST DEFENCES


The creation of great maritime fortresses, primarily designed to hold
with iron hand important highways of commerce, like Gibraltar, or simply
to guard great naval arsenals,