Word: louisbourg
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...Wednesday, the University joined in the commemoration of a 1745 raid on the French fort at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia by returning a two-foot, wrought-iron cross seized at the raid...
...Louisbourg Cross" came into Harvard's possession "before 1800...[under]circumstances unknown," according to a document in the University Archives...
...cross was returned to Louisbourg on Permanent loan during a ceremony held Wednesday at the Charlestown Navy Yard...
...Navy Yard is the location of an exhibit commemorating the siege of Louisbourg...
...salary, lived on "faith in his Divine Master" supplemented by the voluntary gifts of his flock. Paternal, he was called Father Moody, an appellation rare among Congregationalists. Intolerant as his era, he took along an ax when at 70 he sailed as chaplain of the 1745 expedition against Louisbourg, smashed the altars and images in that French fortress...