Endgame 1758 : The Promise, the Glory, and the Despair of Louisbourg's Last Decade

Name: Endgame 1758
Brand: University of Nebraska Press
SKU: 9780803260092
Price: 2950 KES
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ISBN: 9780803260092

by A. J. B. Johnston

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization

ISBN-10 0803260091

ISBN-13 9780803260092

Publisher University of Nebraska Press

Imprint University of Nebraska Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 1st, 2008

Print length 382 Pages

Weight 510 grams

Dimensions 22.90 x 16.10 x 2.10 cms

Product Classification: Canada History of the Americas Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 History History of the Americas

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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. This book presents the dramatic military and social history of this short-lived and significant fortress, seaport, and community, and the citizens who made it their home.

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. Johnston''s gripping biography of the colony''s 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 region''s Aboriginal peoples. The magnitude of the struggle and of its uncertain outcome colored the lives of Louisbourg''s 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.

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