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Louisburg

American  
[loo-is-burg] / ˈlu ɪsˌbɜrg /

noun

  1. a seaport on SE Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in SE Canada: French fortress captured by British 1745, 1758.


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Not long after, she was competing in Louisburg herself, winning the “Whistler Who Traveled the Greatest Distance” award in 2012.

From New York Times Jun. 30, 2021

Baumgardner, the Louisburg Republican who led this assault on good sense, laid out in detail the number and nature of awful images allegedly found on the computer of Folsom’s former client.

From Washington Times Jun. 9, 2020

Creeks and Carolinians besieged St. Augustine in 1704, and a New England expedition in King George’s War took the massive French fortress of Louisburg on Cape Breton Island in northeast Canada.

From Textbooks Jan. 18, 2018

U.S. immigration officials swiftly deported him and his older brother, Diego, on Aug. 2, days after Lizandro told them during a routine check-in that he had a scholarship to attend Louisburg College.

From Washington Post Aug. 21, 2017

Grandsire’s old gun was gone, and so was the powder-horn he had carried to Louisburg back in 1745.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

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