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Louisbourg Fortress

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Wonder Type: Cultural

Country: Canada

Best of: Architecture, Fortification, Fortress

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The Fortress of Louisbourg (French: Forteresse de Louisbourg) is a National Historic Site of Canada and the location of a one-quarter partial reconstruction of an 18th-century French fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Its two sieges, especially that of 1758, were turning points in the Anglo-French struggle for what today is Canada. [More Details]

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