Louisbourg

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Louisbourg | official_name = | other_name = | native_name = | nickname = | settlement_type = | total_type = | motto = | image_skyline = Louisbourg harbor, NS.jpg | imagesize = 300px | image_caption = Louisbourg Harbour | image_flag = | flag_size = | image_seal = | seal_size = | image_shield = | shield_size = | image_blank_emblem = | blank_emblem_type = | blank_emblem_size = | image_map = | mapsize = | map_caption = | image_map1 = | mapsize1 = | map_caption1 = | image_dot_map = | dot_mapsize = | dot_map_caption = | dot_x = | dot_y = | pushpin_map = Nova Scotia | pushpin_label_position = left | pushpin_map_caption = Location of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia | pushpin_mapsize = 250 | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Canada | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = Nova Scotia | subdivision_type2 = Municipality | subdivision_name2 = Cape Breton Regional Municipality | seat_type = | seat = | parts_type = | parts_style = | parts = | p1 = | p2 = | government_footnotes = | government_type = | leader_title = | leader_name = | leader_title1 = | leader_name1 = | established_title1 = English settlement | established_date1 = 1769 | established_title2 = Incorporated Town | established_date2 = 1901 | extinct_title = Amalgamated Cape Breton Regional Municipality | extinct_date = August 1, 1995 | area_magnitude = | unit_pref = | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = | area_land_km2 = 3.3 | area_water_km2 = | area_total_sq_mi = | area_land_sq_mi = | area_water_sq_mi = | area_water_percent = | elevation_footnotes = <!--for references: use They did so by transplanting settlers there from the evacuated Terre-Neuve colony. The fortress was designed as a "major statement" on French commercial and military power in the ongoing rush to colonize North America. The settlement's development therefore took between 10 and 20 percent of France's total colonial budget from . The settlement was burned the first day the British-American colonial forces landed during the Siege of Louisbourg (1745). The French were terrorized and abandoned the Grand Battery, which the British American colonial forces occupied the following day. It was returned to France in 1748 but recaptured by the British in 1758.