Word: louisburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week husky, 45-year-old Michael Lerner (Lerner Shops), who hunts and fishes round-the-globe, round-the-calendar, accomplished an unprecedented swordfishing feat. Off Nova Scotia's picturesque Louisburg, Angler Lerner boated two broadbill...
...fascinated reader of Parkman's narrative of the fall of Louisburg in 1745 this collection of contemporary journals may offer sharp contrast to the romantic tale that is found in the "Half Century of Conflict." The book is a compilation of ten accounts of the siege by different eye-witnesses, six of whom remain unknown to the present day. Written in the plain matter of fact fashion of the unimaginative colonial they simply set forth the events that took place in the one American expedition of the War of the Austrian Succession. One must not expect to find more than...
...compiling these journals Mr. de Forest has brought forth one of the few books of actual facts on the taking of Louisburg that has ever been printed. It has no embellishments to put it in the class of a popular history, it contains no plot, but it gives to those interested in this aspect of colonial history an authentic, fascinating, and original chronicle...
Miss Hobgood, who wrote the play, is a native of North Carolina. She was graduated from Louisburg College...