An Appearance of Strength : The Fortifications of Louisbourg – VOL 2

pp. 214, book slightly worn, edges slightly soiled. “The French defended their North American territories with isolated forts at strategic sites in the wildnerness nd with bastioned masonry walls around the three towns important enough to warrant such fortifications : Montreal, Quebec and Louisbourg. Documentary, architectural and archaeological evidence reveals to what extent the French, then predominant in military engineering, applied long-established Old World methods at Louisbourg and to what extent they adapted to the different physical and military environment of the New World. Twice besieged, Louisbourg was twice taken. Yet in both sieges it held out, unaided, for more than six weeks after the enemy had landed. More could not have been asked.” Volume 1 is text.