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[edit] Best books on the subject?

What are the best books that detail the whole history of the fort and the broader context of the 7 years war?--Sonjaaa 19:40, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

That's a good question and one I'll try to answer here while also adding the info to the main page. Probably the most accessible book is a recent one published by Goose Lane Editions and the New Brunswick Military Heritage Project in 2004 called The siege of Fort Beausejour 1755, by Chris M. Hand, ISBN 0-86492-377-5. It is a slim book (100 pages) but quite informative and well-researched. Bernard Pothier published Battle for the Chignecto Forts in 1995, under the Balimuir imprint. I have not seen it. As well there were two books on the subject printed in French around 1993 that I have not seen.

Prior to this book there is a dearth of material. You have to go back to the 'thirties to find an actual monograph devoted to the forts. This was The Forts of Chignecto by Dr John Clarence Webster, self published at Shediac in 1930. Webster also wrote Thomas Pynchon: The Spy of Beausejour, published in 1937, and The Building of Fort Lawrence in Chignecto, published in 1941. These books are very difficult to come by but a good Canadian library should carry them.

Of the Seven Years War, the most recent major study seems to have been Fred Anderson's Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766, published by Knopf in 2000. ISBN: 0375406425.

There is also a fairly recent and well-documented book about the second siege, called The Siege of Fort Cumberland, 1776 by Ernest Clarke. It was published by McGill-Queen's Press in 1995. ISBN: 0-7735-1323-X.

I hope this helps. Verne Equinox 00:05, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!!!--Sonjaaa 17:37, 27 February 2006 (UTC)