Pengepungan Louisbourg (1758)

Pembakaran kapal Prancis Prudent dan penangkapan Bienfaisant, selama pengepungan Louisbourg pada 1758, Richard Paton

Pengepungan Louisbourg merupakan sebuah operasi penting dari Perang Tujuh Tahun (dikenal di Amerika Serikat sebagai Perang Prancis dan Indian) pada 1758 yang mengakhiri era kolonial Prancis di Kanada Atlantik dan mengakibatkan kampanye Britania berikutnya untuk merebut Quebec pada 1759 dan sisa Prancis Baru tahun berikutnya.[1]

Referensi

Sumber utama

• Gordon's journal of the siege
• The Daily Journals, Diaries, Letters, and Accounts of Louisbourg and Isle Royale (1713–1768)
• Journal of John Wolcott
• Memoirs of de Johnstone
• Chapter III of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African at Wikisource includes a brief witness account of the battle
• Guerre du Canada. 1756–1760. Montcalm et Lévis.(in French)

Endnotes

1. Johnston, A.J.B. (2007). Endgame 1758: The Promise, the Glory and the Despair of Louisbourg's Last Decade. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. 

Bibliografi

• Anderson, Fred. Crucible of War (2000) pp 250–256
• Brumwell, Stephen. Paths of Glory: The Life and Death of General James Wolfe. Hambledon Continuum, 2007 ISBN 9781847252081
• Chartrand, Rene Louisbourg 1758
• Hough, Richard. Captain James Cook: a biography. Hodder & Stoughton, 1995
• Fowler, William M. Empires at War: The French and Indian War and the Struggle For North America. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd., 2005
• Hitsman, J. McKay and C.C.J. Bond. "The Assault Landing at Louisbourg, 1758," Canadian Historical Review (1954) 35:314–330.
• A.J.B. Johnson, Endgame 1758:The Promise, the Glory and the Despair of Louisbourg's Last Decade, Sydney, NS: Capre Breton University Press, 2008
• McLennan, J.S (2000, originally 1918). Louisbourg: From its Foundation to its Fall, 1713–1758. Halifax: The Book Room Limited.
• Warner, Oliver. With Wolfe to Quebec. Toronto: William Collins Sons and Company Ltd., 1972 ISBN 0002119420
• The Naval Chronicle. 07. Bunney & Gold. 

• James Cook's participation at the Siege of Louisbourg. Royal Geographical Society of South Australia