Louisbourg in 1745

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Excerpt from Louisbourg in 1745: The Anonymous Lettre D'un Habitant De Louisbourg (Cape Breton), Containing a Narrative by an Eye-Witness of the Siege in 1745 Printed copies of the Letter are extremely rare. There is one in the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris. Parkman was unable to find a copy in the British Museum or upon this side of the Atlantic, and had the Paris volume copied for his use in writing A Half Century of Con¿ict. He printed copious extracts from the letter in the appendix to this work, but necessarily Omitted much that is of interest. An exemplar of the original edition is in the Library of Parliament at Ottawa, and Dr. J. G. Bourinot, Clerk of the House of Commons, also possesses a copy. The volume (4x6) contains eighty-one pages, and is printed in large, clear type, on thin, but good, paper. It has numerous typographical errors. The most obvious Of these have been corrected in the present edition, but otherwise the original text has been exactly reproduced. The spelling and the use of accents are very capricious. An English trans lation has been added for the convenience of many interested in the sources Of colonial history and yet without facility in reading French. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.