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Siege of Louisbourg | |||||||
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Part of the French and Indian War | |||||||
Burning of the French ship Prudent and capture of Bienfaisant, during the siege of Louisbourg in 1758, Richard Paton | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Great Britain British America |
France Mi'kmaq Acadians | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Jeffery Amherst James Wolfe Charles Lawrence Edward Whitmore Edward Boscawen Robert Rogers |
Augustin de Drucour Jean Vauquelin Beaussier de l'Isle | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
26,000 40 warships 150 transport vessels |
7,000 5 ships of the line | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
172 killed 355 wounded[3] |
102 killed 303 wounded 6,600 captured[3] 4 ships of the line destroyed 1 ship of the line captured |
The Siege of Louisbourg was a pivotal operation of the Seven Years' War (known in the United States as the French and Indian War) in 1758 that ended the French colonial era in Atlantic Canada and led to the subsequent British campaign to capture Quebec in 1759 and the remainder of French North America the following year.[4]
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