The British force anchors in Gabarus Bay,…

June 1758 CE

The British force anchors in Gabarus Bay, three miles (four point eight kilometers) from Louisbourg on June 2.

The French commander (and governor of Île-Royale (New France), the Chevalier de Drucour, has at his disposal some thirty-five hundred regulars as well as approximately thirty-five hundred marines and sailors from the French warships in the harbor.

However, unlike the previous year, the French navy is unable to assemble in significant numbers, leaving the French squadron at Louisbourg outnumbered five to one by the British fleet.

Drucour orders trenches to be prepared and manned by some two thousand French troops, along with other defenses, such as an artillery battery, at Kennington Cove.

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Louisbourg Nova Scotia Canada View →

People
Augustin de Boschenry de Drucour View → Charles Lawrence View → Edward Boscawen View → Edward Whitmore View → George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe View → George II of Great Britain View → James Abercrombie View → James Wolfe View → Jean Vauquelin View → Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst View → John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun View → Louis-Joseph Beaussier de l'Isle View → Louis-Joseph de Montcalm View → Robert Rogers View → Thomas Gage View → William Johnson, 1st Baronet View → William Pitt View →

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Iroquois (Haudenosaunee, also known as the League of Peace and Power, Five Nations, or Six Nations) View → Abenaki people (Amerind tribe) View → Mohawk people (Amerind tribe) View → Wyandot, or Wendat, or Huron people (Amerind tribe) View → Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans) View → New France (French Colony) View → Shawnees, or Shawanos (Amerind tribe) View → France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of View → Ohio Country View → New York, Province of (English Colony) View → New Hampshire, English royal Province of View → Massachusetts, Province of (English Crown Colony) View → New Jersey (English Colony) View → Britain, Kingdom of Great View → Nova Scotia (British Colony) View →

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Colonization of the Americas, French View → Colonization of the Americas, British View → French and Indian War View → Louisbourg, Siege of (1758) View →

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