Montagne de Diable / Devil's Mountain, Deep Cove, Gabarus Bay Silver gelatin photo-composite Image dimension: 37-3/8 x 8-1/8 inches (955 x 205 mm) Frame dimension: 45-5/16 x 16-5/16 inches (1150 x 430 mm) Edition of three (3). Signed & numbered 1/3. Printed: December 2007 For sale: Cnd $650. Framed / ready to hang "On the naval side it was made up of 23 men-of-war and 16 smaller vessels, mounting 1842 guns, and carrying crews of 14,005 men. "The land forces consisted of 13,142 men and officers. Lord Ligonier had responded to the call of Pitt, in a lavish supply of munitions of war." ... "With varying but not unfavourable weather, the fleet tacked along the coast of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton. When the weather cleared, on Friday, June 2, Boscawen saw Louisbourg, and with light airs came slowly to his chosen anchorage in Gabarus Bay, which he reached about four that afternoon. He was followed in that evening and the next day by the rest of the fleet. As they passed in, Amherst and his men saw rise above the circumvallation the slender spires of the principal buildings, and beyond them the slenderer masts of the ships of the harbour." --J.S. McLennan, Louisbourg from its foundation to its fall Seventy soldiers were stationed on guard at the high ground of Montagne de Diable, sending advance signals along the coastline to warn the city. "At Gab'rous, a great armada staid ... The British look forth into the night And trace from cape to cape the flickering beams of light." --C. Ochiltree MacDonald, The Last Siege of Louisbourg PREV | MAIN | NEXT