Word: louisburg
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...soldierly tone of his book will remind Americans that, even if they have forgotten it in peacetime, they are one of the world's great warrior nations, that the whole continental seaboard is a great field of their battles from Quebec and Louisburg to Chapultepec; that the pitting of Americans against Americans resulted in the world's most terrible battles until World War I-on the rolling farmlands of Gettysburg, in the narrow valley of Antietam Creek, on the hills at Chickamauga, in the oak and pine thickets of Virginia's Wilderness...
Grandmother knew stories about the Old French War too, in which Maine men made British officers' eyes bug by capturing impregnable Louisburg. In the American Revolution, Benedict Arnold led Maine men through the blinding blizzards to attack Quebec. With him went two of Kenneth Roberts' great-great-grandfathers. And there was the persecution of the Tories by the rebels...
Grandmother Tibbets' stories had been swirling around his head all those years. Moreover, he had read Schoolmaster-Postmaster Charles Bradbury's History of Kennebunkport, was determined to write a novel about the Louisburg expedition. He was in one of his rages because he had collected so much research that even in his own mind he could not condense it into an outline of anything resembling a novel...
...American colonists) they despoiled France's Louis XIV of his important eastern Canada holdings except Cape Breton Island off the east end of Nova Scotia. From there French fishermen still went out to the Grand Banks and there they built a mighty fortress at Louisburg. From Nantasket, Mass, in 1746 set forth 4,000 colonists under Lieut. General William Pepperell to reduce this French threat to Anglo-Saxon supremacy in the northeast. It fell in a few weeks, was returned to France when King George's War (a Western Hemisphere overflow of Europe...
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...