PRINCESS BASTION REPORT:
A SURVEY OF THE AREA FROM THE RIGHT REENTRANT 
ANGLE OF THE PRINCESS BASTION TO THE RIGHT REENTRANT 
ANGLE OF THE BROUILLAN BASTION, AND THE RELATION OF THIS 
AREA TO CAP NOIR

BY

MARGARET FORTIER

February, 1966

(Supervision: W. Stevenson, J. Hanna)

(Fortress of Louisbourg Report H B 3)

Presently, only some illustrations are included here.
For all of them, please consult the original report in the archives of the Fortress of Louisbourg

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ILLUSTRATIONS

• Figures 1-2 - Preconstruction representations of the Princess Bastion.
• Figure 3 - Princess Bastion under construction in 1733.
• Figure 4 - Princess Bastion under construction in 1734.
• Figure 5 - Profile through partially completed right face of Princess Bastion (1734~)
• Figure 6 - Profile through partially completed loophole wall and casemate of Princess Bastion (1734).
• Figure 7 - Princess Bastion under construction in 1735
• Figure 8 - Princess Bastion under construction in 1737 with projection of its outer works.
  Figure 9 - View of left side of Princess Bastion in 1737.
• Figure 10 - Profile through eperon projected for Ililneess Bastion (1737)-
• Figure 11 - Profile through projected Crenelated Wall.
• Figure 12 - Plan of Princess Bastion in 1739 with part of projected crrenelated Wall.
• Figure 13 - Plan of left side of Princess Bastion (1740).
• Figure 14 - Princess Bastion in 1745 prior to first siege.
• Figure 15 - Plan of changes contemplated by English at Princess Bastion in 1745.
• Figure 16 - Profile and elevation of Crenelated Wall in 1745-
• Figures 17-18 - Plans of Princess Bastion intended to show the presence of a building adjacent to right side of the retired battery.
• Figure 19 - Plan of Princess Bastion in 1745/6.
• Figures 20-21 - Plans of Princess Bastion intended to show possible extqnsion of casemate.
• Figu.re 22 - Plan of Princess Bastion in 1751-
• Figure 23 - Profile through the right face of the Princess Bastion showing its existing state and the changes proposed.
• Figure 24 - Profile through the Crenelated Wall in-1751 showing
  its existing state and the changes proposed.
• Figure 25 - Platform for a cannon and carriage.
• Figure 26 - Plans of the retired battery of the Princes Bastion.
• Figure 27 - Profile through the redoubt projected for Cap Noir in 1751
• Figure 28 - Profile through the right face of the Princess Bastion showing the ruined condition of the wall and the repairs to the same (1756).
• Figure 29 - Profile through the contregard before the Princess Bastion showing its projected form and the state actually reached in 1756.
• Figure 30 - Profile through the covert way and glacis before the Princess Bastion in 1756.
• Figures 31-31a - Plan of the remade Princess Bastion and its outer works (1757).
• Figure 32 - Plan of the remade Princess Bastion and part of its outer works (1758)
• Figure 33 - Three plans of the demi-lune constructed in front of the Princess-Queen's Curtain (1758).
• Figure 34 - Plan of the remade Princess Bastion, its outer works, the Crenelated Wall and the Princess-Queen's Curtain (1759)
• Figure 35 - Plan of the Princess Bastion in 1760 intending to show the placement of the demolition mines.
• Figure 36 - Profile through the right face of the Princess Bastion, and the contregard and outer works before it (1760).
• Figure 37 - Plan of the Princess Bastion and its outer works intending to show the placement of the demolition mines in the former and the manner of demolition of the latter.
• Figures 38-39 - Detail of the four mine galleries used in the demolition of the Princess Bastion.
• Figure 40 - Three plans of the demi-lune constructed before the Princess-Queen's Curtain intended to show the placement of the ramp on same.
• Figure 41 - Three plans of the contregard constructed before the right face of the Princess Bastion intended to show the possible extension built onto the same.
• Plate 1 - Plan of Louisbourg showing the progress of construction in 1734.
• Plate 2 - Plan of the left side of the Princess Bastion, including the projected eperon (1737)
• Plate 3 - Plan of proposed works at left side of the Princess Bastion (1737)
• Plate 4 - Plan of Princess Bastion and Crenelated Wall in 1751
• Plate 5 - Plan of Princess Ba:stion and Crenelated Wall in 1?51
• Plate 6 - Plan of Princess Bastion as proposed by Franquet's "First Project" in 1751* iPlate 7 - Plan of Louisbourg intended to show redoubt proposed for Cap Noir in 1751
• Plate 8 - Plan of Princess Bastion and its outer works as projected by Louis Franquet in 1751
• Plate 9 - Plan of Princess Bastionp its outer.-works and Crenelated Wall as proposed by Franquet's "Second Project".
• Plate 10 - Plan of the works ordered by the King at the Princess Bastion and Crenelated Wall in 1755
• Plate 11 - Plan of the changes ordered by the King at the Princess Bastion and Crenelated Wall in 1755.
• Plate 12 - Plan of the changes ordered by the King at the Princess Bastion and Crenelated Wall in 1755
• Plate 13 - Plan of changes at Princess Bastion contemplated in 1756.

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