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Endgame 1758 the promise, the glory, and the despair of Louisbourg's last decade
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- ISBN: 9780803209862 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 080320986X (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780803260092 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0803260091 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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1 online resource (365 p.) : ill., maps. - Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2007.
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| General Note: | CatBulkString:jan.03.13 Multi-User. Multi-User OldControl:muse9780803209862 CatMonthString:jan.13 |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-349) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Opening moves, 1749 -- Middle game, 1750-1755 -- The match heightens, 1756-1757 -- Beginning of the end, early 1758 -- This time for real, June 1-7, 1758 -- Attack and defend, June 8-July 27, 1758 -- Winner take all -- Appendix 1 : French ships to Louisbourg, 1758 -- Appendix 2 : British ships at Louisbourg, 1758 -- Appendix 3 : French land forces at Louisbourg, 1758 -- Appendix 4 : British land forces at Louisbourg, 1758. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
| System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
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| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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- Choice Reviews : Choice Reviews 2008 June
With this straightforward military history of the decade leading up to the successful British siege of Louisbourg in 1758, the prolific Johnston, long a historian with Parks Canada, builds upon his two previous books on life in French colonial Louisbourg (Control and Order in French Colonial Louisbourg, 2001; Life and Religion at Louisbourg, 1996). He promises that this book will deal substantively with the French-British imperial conflict, with the Aboriginal peoples of Atlantic Canada, and with Louisbourg as a living community. However, he devotes most of the book to a detailed narrative of French efforts to strengthen the fortifications at Louisbourg, the series of feints and exploratory probes sent by the British against the fort, and the final climactic battle of 1758, in which the British won the first of several key victories in the conquest of Canada. For the broader context, readers might wish to consult Fred Anderson's Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 (CH, Jul'00, 37-6428), Geoffrey Plank's An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign against the Peoples of Acadia (CH, Jul'01, 38-6403), and Johnston's Life and Religion at Louisbourg (1996). Summing Up: Optional. General and undergraduate audiences. Copyright 2008 American Library Association.
