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...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...
...that William Pitt commissioned Jeffrey Amherst, already a seasoned campaigner of 41, as major general with the British colonial forces in America. After the taking of Louisburg that July, Amherst was promoted to full command of all these forces. After the fall of Montreal he was made Governor General of British North America. If indeed he "looked around for more when he was through," he found all he sought, for the Indians under Pontiac gave him more trouble than all his other campaigns put together, in fact had much the best of it. He was made governor of Virginia...
There will be two types of activities on Beacon Hill Monday--the booths in Louisburg Square where salable articles will be offered, and the old fashioned games which will take place up and down the streets of the area. Antiques of all kinds, candies, cold drinks, and souvenirs will fill the booths, and there will be many features during the day, such as a Town Crier to announce events, a second visit of Lafayette in an old coach, and an old fashioned fire engine with a volunteer brigade...