Louisbourg 250'th

[cessna152towser]

Thanks for posting an informative history and some super pics.
To think all this battle was going on at the very day Robert Burns was born.
That black kilt looks real good.

[Woodsheal]

I always thought the "last" Highland Charge was at Moore's Creek Bridge, North Carolina in 1776 -- King George & Broadswords!

Todd

Exactly right, Todd! Which is why I said "one of the last." Though I guess it wasn't really a charge at Quebec; more of a pursuit - with broadswords - of screeching, fleeing Frenchmen...

[Scotus]

Thanks for more great photos. I like the photo with the statue of St. Roch in it.

I have to say, however, that I doubt very much that the cup in the museum was a so-called "Communion cup," of Abbe Pierre Millard, a missionary who died in Nova Scotia in 1762. There is no node or stem, which would make the celebration of Mass quite difficult. A missionary, one that had to travel about, would use simply a smaller version of a chalice, which pretty much has to have a node and stem for ease of use. Also, the cup would not be so large, as only the priest would drink from it.

[macwilkin]

Exactly right, Todd! Which is why I said "one of the last." Though I guess it wasn't really a charge at Quebec; more of a pursuit - with broadswords - of screeching, fleeing Frenchmen...

Hmm...that's not the version of Quebec I'm familiar with. Montcalm was a brave and noble opponent, not to mention one of his officers, the Chevalier de Johnstone, a former Jacobite.

Todd

[Woodsheal]

Hmm...that's not the version of Quebec I'm familiar with. Montcalm was a brave and noble opponent, not to mention one of his officers, the Chevalier de Johnstone, a former Jacobite.

Todd

I totally agree! I was only referring to the final stage of the battle, which did involve the 78th Reg't pursuing French troops back to the city gates after their lines broke. I've read some graphic period accounts of the havoc wrought with the Highland broadswords on that occasion! The 78th then suffered heavy casualties near the city walls from a crossfire (the highest of any British reg't that day)....