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PRELIMINARY HISTORICAL REPORT, ROYAL BATTERY NUMBER 2

By John Humphreys 

October 15, 1964

(Fortress of Louisbourg Report Number H F 5)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction

SECTION I - INITIAL CONSTRUCTION

• SECTION I - Royal Battery - Initial Construction
   
• TABLE OF FUNDS - Allocated for the Construction of the Royal Battery
   

SECTION II - ROYAL BATTERY ALTERATIONS

• SECTION II A - Left Flank Modification  and Footnotes
   
• SECTION II B - Turfing and Footnotes
   
• SECTION II C - Rough-Casting, Cramponing, Revetment and Footnotes
   
• SECTION 11 D - Roofing of  Towers and Footnotes
   
• SECTION 11 E - Filling of Cellars and Footnotes
   
• SECTION 11 F - Stables and Footnotes
   
• SECTION 11 G  - Eperon and Footnotes
   
• SECTION 11 H -  Platforms  and Footnotes
   
• SECTION 11 I - Number of Embrasures and Footnotes
   
• SECTION 11 J - Height of Seawall and Footnotes
   
• SECTION  11 K - Detailed Accounts of Repairs and Footnotes
   
• SECTION 11 L - Demolition and Footnotes
   
• SECTION 11 M - Guérites and Footnotes
   
• SECTION 11 N - Cordon and Footnotes
   
• SECTION 11 O - Artillery at the Royal Battery and Footnotes

SECTION III - OCCUPATION AND USE

• SECTION III  - Occupation and Use and Footnotes

APPENDICES

• APPENDIX A - English Sources Consulted
   
• APPENDIX B - French Sources Consulted
   
• APPENDIX C - Sources Remaining to be Searched
   
• APPENDIX D - References in Un-Searched Sources

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