Fortification of Louisbourg The French touched base in Louisbourg in northern Cape Breton in 1713 in the wake of losing Acadia and Newfoundland to the British under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht, which finished the Spanish Succession war.

France was just ready to hold the islands of Cape Breton Island (then known as Isle Royale) and Prince Edward Island (then known as Isle Saint-Jean) in what is referred to today as Atlantic Canada. The French utilized these islands as a base to keep looking for Cod off the Grand Banks. The cod fishery was a lucrative industry back then. In 1719 they began development of the strengthened town of Louisbourg in northern Cape Breton. The town was just completed on the eve of the principal attack in 1745 and soon turned into a flourishing settlement and group along the shore of the harbor.

The cod fishery industry represented the vast majority of Cape Breton's thriving. The fish was laid out on stages which coated the shorelines of Louisbourg and encompassing outports and were dried and salted before fare. Louisbourg turned into a noteworthy wellspring of business exchanging fabricated items and in different materials imported from France, Quebec, the West indies and New England.

The harbor was all around shielded, and you would believe that a braced town with a fortification divider would be very much safeguarded. Be that as it may, on the area side of the post there are a progression of little slopes which gave fantastic areas to attack batteries, some of them being perilously near the stronghold.

After an announcement of war amongst Britain and France in 1745 the post was assaulted surprisingly. New Englanders having been educated that the Fortress was in dilapidation and that the troops were very nearly revolt because of poor supplies charged the Fortress of Louisbourg with an energy regularly connected with that of a religious Crusade.