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Events from the year 1745 in Canada.
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Pamphlet (written in January 1745) argues that Île-Royale must be captured to protect valuable fishery in Newfoundland [3]
Rising British Army officer says few provisions, little gunpowder, poor discipline and leadership, and exposed defences make Louisbourg vulnerable [4]
Massachusetts government moves (relatively) quickly to mount military expedition to take Louisbourg and Île-Royale [5]
Siege of Louisbourg ends with French defenders and British invaders agreeing to capitulation and transfer of French to France at British expense [6]
Governor William Shirley sends report and journal of Louisbourg siege, including details of soldiers' extremely heavy labour [7]
"God fought for us" - Sermon crediting Providence for so many advantages of preparation, execution and luck leading to fall of Louisbourg [8]
Photo: Monument erected by Society of Colonial Wars to the memory of New England soldiers killed at Louisbourg during siege of 1745 [9]
During siege, whaleboats were loaded with ladders and 500 soldiers and marines to take Louisbourg's Island Battery, but fog prevented attempt [10]
"After a Dance this Day, they fell upon him" - Report of torture killing of British soldier captured near Louisbourg [11]
"The Inhabitants were strangely surpris'd" - fire ship loaded with gunpowder used to damage King's Gate and other structures in Louisbourg [12]
"A great deal of ill usage" - Reports of local Indigenous people being abused by British authorities after siege (Note: "savages" used) [13]
Loss of Louisbourg eliminates France's benefit from rich North American fishery trade to Catholic Europe (Note: "savages" used) [14]
Nova Scotia Council president Mascarene assures Acadians that none who are of mixed European and Indigenous origin will be scalped [15]
Acadians supplying provisions to occupied Louisbourg threatened by its local Indigenous people, but those in Nova Scotia want peace [16]
Council advised from Chignecto that Jean-Louis Le Loutre has arrived there from Quebec "with presents for the Indians" [17]
Mascarene sternly cautions Acadians for seeking Le Loutre's permission to supply Annapolis, and then letting "11 or 12 Indians" stop them [18]
Uncooperative and hostile actions of Acadians (listed from 1710) make them, if not "utter Enemies," then "unprofitable Inhabitants" [19]
Quebec leaders report almost all Acadians desire "French Dominion" while amassing money as "a resource for an evil day" [20]
Joseph Robson investigates lower Nelson River for its usefulness to Hudson's Bay Company [21]
Joseph Robson's argument for building Hudson's Bay Company forts of stone, not wood [22]
Map of New France covers from Grand Banks to Pays d'en Haut to Baffin Bay [23]
English translation of Alain-René Lesage's fictionalized version of Canadian soldier/adventurer Beauchêne's exploits is published in London [24]
The Fortress of Louisbourg is a tourist attraction as a National Historic Site and the location of a one-quarter partial reconstruction of an 18th-century French fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Its two sieges, especially that of 1758, were turning points in the Anglo-French struggle for what today is Canada.
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The siege of Annapolis Royal in 1744 involved two of four attempts by the French, along with their Acadian and native allies, to regain the capital of Nova Scotia/Acadia, Annapolis Royal, during King George's War. The siege is noted for Governor of Nova Scotia Paul Mascarene successfully defending the last British outpost in the colony and for the first arrival of New England Ranger John Gorham to Nova Scotia. The French and Mi'kmaq land forces were thwarted on both attempts on the capital because of the failure of French naval support to arrive.
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