HISTORY OF VERMONT. 4i3 



American colonics were called upon, to raise as 

 many troops, and to make all the exertions in 

 their power. 



The reduction of Louisbourg and the island 

 of Cape Breton being an object of immediate 

 consideration, was undertaken with much spirit 

 and dispatch. Lord Loudon had returned to 

 England, and was no longer employed in the 

 affairs of the colonies. The expedition was 

 put under the command of major general Am- 

 herst, assisted by the brigadier generals, Wolfe, 

 Whitmorc, and Lawrence. The naval force 

 was put under the command of admiral Bosca- 

 wen, "vvho sailed early in the spring with the 

 fleet and forces for America. The whole arma- 

 ment collected at Halifaxin Nova Scotia, and 

 consisted of one hundred and fifty seven sail. 

 On May the twenty eighth the .fleet sailed from 

 Halifax, and on the second of June, part of the 

 transports anchored in Gabarous bay, about sev- 

 en miles to the westward of Louisbourg. On 

 the eighth the troops effected their landing un- 

 der the command of the able and spirited gene- 

 ral Wolfe, and in a few days compleatly invest- 

 ed the city. 



Louisbourg had a garrison of two thousand 

 five hundred regular troops, tiu'ee hundred mi-^ 

 litia, and was afterwards reinforced by three 

 hundred and fifty Canadians, including three- 

 score Lidians. The harbor was secured by six: 

 ships of the line, and five frigates ; the whole 

 under the command of the cheveleur Drucour. 

 With much expence and labor, the governor 

 had been preparing: for a siesre. Amherst mad« 

 m& approaches with great circumspection. 



