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Researching the
Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site of Canada
Recherche sur la Forteresse-de-Louisbourg Lieu historique national du Canada
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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SOURCES
COVERED FOR PRINCESS BASTION REPORT
Sources Covered for Princess Bastion Report
A detailed list of the materials covered in the course
of the work on the Princess Bastion has been compiled. Divided into two
sections - positive and negative sources - this list includes everything
that was examined, The positive sources include all those in which a
reference to the Bastion or its environs was found
whether or not the
particular reference was used in the writing of the report. It is obvious
from the footnotes which sources were of the most help.
POSITIVE SOURCES
(a)
Microfilm
-
C11B - Vol. 10--38
- C11B - Vol. 39
-
C11A - Vol., 126
- Library of
Congress - A diary Louisbourg May 15, 1759-Sept. 24,
1760
- Library of
Congress -Military Affairs of Louisbourg 1747
- War Office 49
- Work Orders
-
Library of Congress - Garrison Orders;
Cunninghame Muniments
- Archives Du
Comite Technique DU Genie Les Manuscripts relies
- Mss. 205b (many
documents found in this set are listed under C11B).
(b)
Index Cards
English
- Colonial Office 5 - Vols. 44, 53, 48, 900
-
Colonial Office 217 -
A26, A27, A28, A34
- War Office 34 -
Vols. 14, 17, 18, 44,
101, 260
-
M,G.
18 F12
- M.G. 18 L4
-
M.G. 18 N21
-
M.G. 21 H14
- M. G. 23 A2-1
- M.G. 23 A2-2
- M.
G. 23 A2-3
- M. G. 23 A2-4
- Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of N.Y.
- Vol. 10, PP. 38-75
- Royal Society of Canada -
Section Seven, Vol. 8,
pp. 97-125
- Documents Relating to New Hampshire 1738-1749 - Vol. 5, pp. 272-275
-
London
Magazine - 1760, pp. 255-258
- Nova Scotia
Historical Society - Vols. 5, 9
French
- B Series Vol. 70-2,
70, 72, 78,
81, 91, 95, 97, 103, 105
(c)
Transcripts
English
-
War Office 34 - Vols. 17-l,
18, 14
- Nova Scotia A27
- Nova Scotia A28
- Nova Scotia A34
- Colonial Office 5 - Vol. 53
- Admiralty 1 - Vol. 577
French
- B series - Vols. 68-2, 70-2, 105, 95, 103, 98,
53, 55-3,
59-2, 61-2, 63, 63-2, 64-4, 65-4, 68, 70,72, 76
- Archives de la
Marine - Series B4, Vol. 80-2
-
Archives de la Guerre - Génie,
No. 210d; Vol. 3499-1
-
Ministère de la
Guerre - Génie, Section 1, Article 15; No. 205b; Section 2, Registre 66
- Génie,
Mss. Reliés - Folio 125
- Arehives des Colonies, Dépot des Fortifications
- Carton 4
(d)
Journals
-
Clough, Gibson, Journal of...
-
Le Chevelierr Johnstone,
The Campaign of Louisboug: 1750-58.
-
Royal
Artillery Institution
A Journal containing the manner,
method, and Execution of the Demolition of the Fortifications of
Louisbourg, from June 1st to November 10th
A.D. 1760.
Rosenfield Notes
- Amherst, Jeffery,
Journal of ...
- Anon.
Louisbourg Diary, (15/4/1759 - 4/9/1760)
-
Waldo, Moore, Lathrop and Gridley,
History of the Reduction of Louisbourg, 1745.
-
Montressor,
Journal of..., 1758
- Walcott,
Roger, Journal of the Expedition against Louisbourg ...,1745
DeForest,
Louisbourg Journals
1745
- Anonymous Journal, pp. 1-54
- Anonymous Journal, pp. 67-72
- Anonymous Journal, pp. 109-120
(e)
Maps and Plans
All
maps and plans available, including contact
prints, were
studied and form a most important part of the report as it was
written.
NEGATIVE SOURCES
(a)
Microfilm
- C11B - Vols. 1-9
- Library of Congress
- Sir William Pepperrell/Benjamin
Green
(b)
Index Cards
English
- Colonial Office 5 - Vols. 6-7,
10, 13, 15-19, 31-36, 46-47,
49-52, 54-64, 67-70,
72, 75, 78-
81, 85, 125-127, 144, 147, 154-155, 185, 194-201, 211-214, 223-226, 241-242, 246, 251, 266, 753-754, 899, 901
- Colonial Office 217
- A4-A25, A29-A33, A35-A36,
A38-A39, A42-A43, A45- A46, A49-A50,
A 53-A58, A60-A64, A69,
A71-A80, A82-A84,
M.G. 11 Supplementary 2, Vols 1-10,
12, 15-16, 20-23, 25, 30-33,
38-40, 43-45,
103
- Colonial Office 218
- Vols. 1-6
- Nova
Scotia B - Series 1-10, 12-16
- Nova
Scotia
C2
- Nova
Scotia
C5
- Nova
Scotia
C 6
- Nova
Scotia D1
- Nova
Scotia
D4
- Nova
Scotia
D5
- Nova
Scotia
D6
- Nova
Scotia
D8
- Colonial
Office 219 - Vols. 1-8
- Colonial
Office 220 - Vols. 11 and 15
- Colonial
Office 42 - Vols. 1, 13
and 23
- Colonial
Office
194 Vols. 5-8, 12-13, 16, 23-24, 26
- Colonial
Office
195 - Vols. 2-9, 15
- Colonial
Office
199 Vol. 16
- Colonial
Office
323 Vols. 7-8, 12, 15-19, 21
- War Office 34
- Vols. 1-4, 7-13, 15-16, 19-34, 41-43, 45-46,
57-100, 102, 197-201
- War Office, 12-Vol. 3871
-
War Office 17 - Vols. 1489-1492
- War Office 55 - Vols. 1551, 1820-1821
-
War Office I - Vols. 1, 4-7
- M.G. 18 A7
- M.G. 18 F8
- M.G. 18 F11
- M.G. 18
F13
- M.G. 18 F20
- M. G. 18 G8
- M.G. 18 J7
- M.G. 18 J11
- M.G. 18
K3
- M.G. 18 K7
- M.G. 18 K9 -M.G. 18 K10
- M.G, 18
K14
- M.G. 18 L1
- M.G. 18 L2
- M.G. 18 L5- M.G. 18 L6
- M.G. 18 L8
- M.G. 18 N2
- M.G. 18 N4
-
M.G. 18 N1O - M.G.
18 N11
- M.G. 18 N15 - M.G. 18 N16
- M.G. 18 N28 - M.G. 18 N29
- M.G. 18
M1
- M.G. 18 N30
- M.G. 11 Supp. 18(l)
- M.G. 11 supp. 2
- M.G. 11 Supp. 1
-
M.G. 21 E3
- M.G. 21 G2
- M.G. 21
H9 - M.G. 21
H10
- M.G.
21 H17
- M.G. 21 I8
- M.G. 23 A2-1A
- M.G. 23 A2-5
- M.G. 23 A2-7 - M.G. 23 A10
- M.G. 23 M1
- M.G. 23 K1 - M.G. 23 K2
- M.G. 23 J6 - M-G- 23 J7
- M.G. 23 13
- M.G. 23 16
- M.G.
23 A1
- M.G. 23 A3 - M.G. 23 A5
- M.G. 23
C6
- M.G. 23 F1
- M.G. 23
G
- Boston Evening Post
- Boston Weekly Newsletter
- Gentleman's Magazine
- New
Hampshire Gazette
- Halifax Gazette
- Nova Scotia
Public Archives Vols. 1-5. 7-9, 11-131,
17-26, 29-33, 35-37, 39, 49-51, 129, 136-137, 163-168, 170, 180, 186-187, 215, 222,
250-251, 284, 299, 301, 311,
315, 317-322, 326, 328t,337-338,
341-344, 347, 354-358, 363, 491-493
- Maine Historical Society Collections
- Documentary History of the State of Maine
- New Hampshire Historical Society
- Rhode Island Historical Society
- Rhode
Island Colonial Records
- New England
Historical and Geneological Register
- Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society
- Nova Scotia Historical Society - Vols. 1-4, 6-8, 12-13, 15-18, 20-33
- Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings
- New York Historical Society
Collections
- Stewart's
Quarterly Magezine
- Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society
- Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut
- Pennsylvania Archives
- Manchester Historic Association
Collections
- The Canadian Journal
- Proceedings of the Fitchburg Historical Society
- Documentary History of the State of New York
- Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
French
- B Series - all volumes not listed among the positive sources
(c)
Transcripts
English
- Colonial Office Nova Scotia A29
- Colonial
Office Nova Scotia
A30
- Colonial
Office Nova Scotia
A31
- Colonial
Office Nova Scotia
A32
- Colonial
Office Nova Scotia
Vol. 19
- Colonial
Office Nova Scotia
90
- War Office 1 Vol. 6-2
- Dartmouth Original
Mss. Vol. 1, pt.
1, No, 995
- M.G. 21
E5
French
(d) Journals
- Green, Samuel A., ed.,
Diary Siege of Louisbourg March 11 -
August 2, 1745.
- Rosenfield Notes
- Davis, J.,
Account of Louisbourg, March 30 - April 20, 1745.
- Wolcott,
Roger, Journal of..., April 30-
July 30 1745.
- Belknap,, Particular Explanation of
the Plan No. 3, No. 7, Mass.
His. Soc..
-
Harvey, Hon. William, Journal of
...
- Storer,
Paper of Major
John Storer Relating to Louisbourg
Campaign 1744-1745.
- Smith, Rev. Thomas & Rev. Samuel
Deane, Journals of...
- George Smith's Journal. March 14,
1745 - November 17, 1745.
-
Durell,, Philip, A Particular Account of the
Taking Cape
Breton From the French by Admiral Warren and William
Pepperrell, 17th
June 1745.
- Anon., A Journal of voige
in the Sloop Union,, Elisha Mahew,
Master, in an
Expedition against Cape Breton,
1745.
- City of
Boston, Records of Town, Vol. 4.
- Returns, An Inventory of Goods
in the House of Benj. Hammatt,
Feb. 6, 1758.
- Proctor, Johnathan,
Diary Kept at Louisbourg, 1759-1760.
- Seth Pomerroy's Journal
- Pichon,
Thomas, Genuine letters and Memoires..., 1760.
- Pepperrell, William,
An Accurate Journal and Account... , 1745
- Mascarene
Diary
- Knox's Historical Journal,
"Journal du Siege de Louisbourg."
- Knap,
Nathaniel, Diary of... 1758.
- Green Diary, 1745.
- Daniel Giddings
Diary, 1745.
- Gibson, James.
A Journal of the Last Siege, 1745.
-
Emerson, Joseph.
Diary of...
- Cutter, Benjamin,
A History of the Cutter Family of New England,
(1758, Diary)
- Johathan Darling Jr.'s Journal.
- Cleave's
Diary.
- Letters from Louisbourg, 1758-1759
- William Clark's Journal, March 1744/1745.
- Gilbert Budd Diary, 1755-1760.
- Bidwell, Rev. Adonijah,
Journal of ... April 14
- November 8, 1745.
- Bradstreet, Dudley,
Diary Kept by
... April 1745 - January 1746.
- Auckmuty, Robert,
The Importance of Cap Breton to the British Nation,
1745.
- Ann.
Military Journal, November 1746 - September 1747.
- Ann. Military
Journal French, November 1745 November, 1746.
- Amherst, William,
Journal of..., 1758.
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