Wm Pepperrell
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
