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Date : ca 1760. / Https://jcb.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/s/79oiiz / John Carter En76 S844v / View of the seige of the fortress at Louisbourg in New France in 1745. New England forces are led to battle by William Pepperell. Military aspects include flotilla of boats, warships, guns, British and French flags, and soldiers = Vue du siège de la forteresse de Louisbourg, Nouvelle France, 1745. Forces de la Nouvelle Anglettre menées à la bataille par William Pepperell. Flotille armes soldats drapeaux. / The fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island (called by the French, Isle Royale), a vital commercial center for the French in North America, was captured by a large, but inexperienced, New England force under the leadership of William Pepperell and an English fleet under Commodore Peter Warren in 1745. It was returned to the French by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748, only to be recaptured by the British in 1758 during the French and Indian War. The British destroyed the fortress two years later and with it the French foothold in North America = Forteresse de Louisbourg, au Cap Breton, dite Ile Royale par les Français, centre commercial vital, prise en 1745 par les troupes de Nouvelle Angleterre, nombreuses mais inexpérimentées, sous le commandement de William Pepperell et du Commodore Peter Warren pour la flotte anglaise. Forteresse restituée en 1748, Traité d'Aix-la-Chapelle, reprise par les britanniques en 1758, qui la détruisent deux ans plus tard.