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The Administration Of Justice At The Fortress Of Louisbourg (1713-1758)

1735
 

A soldier in Rousseau De Souvigny's Company with the appropriate nom de guerre of Le Terreur was condemned to the galleys for life after taking a gun into the corps de garde and making a "show of using it against a sergeant." [Source: Margaret Fortier, Fortress Security and Military Justice at Louisbourg, 1720-45, Unpublished Report H E 14 (Fortress of Louisbourg, 1980), pp. 72-73]