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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 (1, No. 1)

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 (1, No. 1)


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Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1897 edition. Extrait: ...other13 wise; and so on the 13th, by order of the council, a battery of thirty pieces of cannon, which had cost the King immense sums, was abandoned without undergoing the slightest fire. The retreat was so precipitate that we did not take time to spike the guns in the usual manner, so that on the very next day the enemy used them. Meanwhile, some deluded themselves with a contrary hope; I was on the point of getting a wager accepted that they would make almost no delay in attacking us. So flurried were we that, before the withdrawal from the battery, a barrel of gunpowder exploded, nearly blew up several persons, and burnt the robe of a Recollet friar. It was not from foiblesse aux ennemis, qui ne manqueroient point de profiter d'une aussi grande etourderie, & qui tourneroient cette meme batterie contre nous: que pour faire bonne contenance, & ne point rehausser le courage a l'ennemi, en lui donnant des le premier jour, une si grande esperance de reussir, il falloit se maintenir dans ce poste important le plus que l'on 41 pourroit: qu'il etoit evident qu'on s'y II conserverait plus de quinze jours, & que ce delai pouvoit etre employe a retirer tous les canons dans la Ville. On repondit que le Conseil l'avoit resolu autrement; ainsi donc, .. par ordre du Conseil, on abandonna le 13. sans avoir essuye le moindre feu, une batterie de trente pieces de canon, qui avoit coute au Roi des sommes immenses. Cet abandon se fit avec tant de precipitation, qu'on ne se donna pas le tems d'encloiier les canons de la maniere que cela se pratique; aussi les ennemis s'en servirent-ils, ..


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  • ISBN-13: 9781231004289
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 30
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1231004282
  • Publisher Date: 13 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 73 gr


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