Chapter L

Lighthouse Point, 14;
is seized and fortified, 109.
Louisburg, the approach to, 14;
the harbor, 15;
old city, 15;
old fortifications perambulated, 17;
hills back of, 17;
natural defences of, 18;
demolition of the works, 19;
and present state of, 19;
Citadel, 20;
natural obstacles to surmount, 21;
bomb-proofs, 21;
impregnable from sea, 21;
graveyard and its inmates, 22;
Royal Battery, 23;
reasons why the fortress was erected, 24 _et seq._;
to be a great mart, 28;
to help Acadia, 29;
called English Harbor, 31;
chosen for a fortress, 32;
why called Louisburg, 32;
operations begun, 33;
prisoners shipped to, from France, 37;
strength and cost of the fortress, 38 and _note_ 45;
could be defended by women, 39;
its armament, 39;
garrison sallies out upon Nova Scotia, 44;
its fall the salvation of New England, 47;
schemes for its capture, 50;
its garrison mutinies, 51;
forces being raised against it, 56, 57;
early suggestions for its conquest, _note_ 58;
is blockaded, 73;
is invested, 89;
its defences as related to the siege, 93;
progress of siege operations, 95 _et seq._;
summoned to surrender, 96;
breaching batteries, 106;
progress of siege, 109;
a relieving vessel gets in, 110;
capture of the Vigilant, 110;
stratagem tried, 115;
its success, 115; a general bombardment, 116;
a suspension of arms, 118;
the surrender, 123;
the garrison, 123, 124;
importance to Great Britain as a political make-weight, 126
_et seq._;
restored to France, 127;
many-sided importance of the conquest to the colonies, 128,
129;
disgust in the colonies at its restoration, 129;
cost of the campaign, _note_ 131;
rejoicings, _note_ 131.