Green Hill battery / La Grande Butte à Brissonet Silver gelatin photo-composite Image dimension: 45-3/4 x 8-5/8 inches (1160 x 220 mm) Frame dimension: 53-1/8 x 18-5/16 inches (1350 x 465 mm) Edition of three (3). Signed & numbered 1/3. Printed: January 2008 For sale: Cnd $750. Framed / ready to hang "Central to both sieges is Green Hill. ... [T]he beginning of the land approach to the town was signaled by the opening of the Green Hill battery. The location of this battery has caused some confusion to historians, but the confusion is more apparent than real and stems from attempts to locate it by correlating various documentary sources rather than examining the ground. Pinpointing Green Hill on the several plans of the siege cannot be done accurately because the plans themselves are not sufficiently accurate. Various prominent landmarks such as ponds, White Point and Flat Point (now Simon's Pt.) are all sufficiently displaced, when compared to modern topographic sheets, that Green Hill may be any of several hills in the area. But it was selected, even before the expedition set sail, as the one hill that commanded both the town and all the other heights in the immediate vicinity, and only one hill meets this requirement." --Bruce W. Fry, An appearance of strength: the Fortifications of Louisbourg "About south-west from the citadel bastion, a large half-mile distance, is a rocky hill, which in attacking of the town, may be of great service, by covering a number of our men, and planting some cannon there, on the top; in such a manner as when you are on the spot, you may judge most advantageous; where you may keep the bombardiers, &c. continually employed, endeavouring principally to demolish their magazine, citadel, walls, &c. which are objects sufficiently in view." --William Shirley, Instructions given by William Shirley, Governor of Massachusetts, to William Pepperell, Lieutenant General of the forces raised in New-England, for an expedition against the French settlements on the Island of Cape Breton, March 19, 1744-5. [O.S.] PREV | MAIN | NEXT