The Fortress of Louisbourg (in French

French language

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, Forteresse de Louisbourg) is a national historic site and the location of a one-quarter partial reconstruction of an 18th century French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 fortress at Louisbourg

Louisbourg, Nova Scotia

Louisbourg is a community in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality.-History:The town's name was given by French military forces who founded the Fortress of Louisbourg and its fortified seaport on the southwest part of the harbour, in honour of Louis XV...

, Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

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. Its two sieges, especially that of 1758, were turning points in the Anglo-French imperial struggle for what today is Canada

Canada

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The original settlement was made in 1713, and initially called Havre à l'Anglois.