Show COLONIAL I HEROES nEMEMUEnED WITH A TUSCAN COLUMN hoe lIuIr1 sst 1111 irsen ilsie hlslsei Isisure 1 Sue Os ltuuee 01 louh lore teos tue semi hllo IhhlA Hold Hthemr J III event commemorated s i commem-orated by th un VrlllMR or the inonu QHi ment at ulilUrg Cnpe llrcton June li1 17 the one hundred 1ff1 > I hun-dred nnd fiftieth j nnnlvcrtar tlr Ih e i nil f that famoua fitrtreiB by fir t I Ihe Trench t the ingtl wn n gr < i1 event of colon il ilatuTT One hundred and fitly eara BRO lOom Hlllnin Bhlrlcr or Msso5 chuietti was builly engaRdl In fitting out the fnmoui expedition under < ln William Prpperrrll whlrh uses dentlnod In rapture this shrium ghiihlIhie 11 hrlInr of America IxmlihurR on the russb shore of Cole llreton Thirty years Inter came lh > war of Independence and blue glnrlM of loulihurg wen ecllpaed and iltn nt furgolton llx the treaty of vlrecht In hIlt Cape llreton won ceded 10 Trance sob Nova Heotli to treat Mrllaln Trance Immediately began fortifying the cape In the moil formidable formid-able manner She built a walled town In the anutheaitern pirl with gale an I incut and drawbridge ni In feudal lime The rnmparla wore of matilvo tone 1111 I from 30 to It fret high At the entrance to Ihe harbor wai a 11111 Island scarcely a quarter of n mil across on which the French erected a 1 battery of thirty Mpounder which they called I Inland Ilattery The light houie Blood In the northeait pirt 141 hear It were the magntlne The lawn of Louliburg waa reRularly bid oull U aiuarea with liroail lrII Aroiinl the writ entrance where there wni a drawbrldRe the Trench erected n bit 4 Till LOUIBDUIIO MONUM13NT tcry of thirteen li > ounJfri which completely com-pletely protected the city gale At IM I bottom of the harbor atood the grand royal battery frowning with his twenty eight 4llOunI nnd two ISpounderl franco had been twentyHvo yenn it n coat of 1000000 In building thIs almost 1 al-most Invulntralilo poiltlon It vva itlll unflnlihod when war broke out In hIll between Trance and Hngland TM 1ronch at ulihurg alia kod Nova i Rcotla nt once Canio wholly unprepared unpre-pared for such n movement aurrtn dered at one without making nny ro alliance Oov Khlrloy of MaaaachUMtU llmneillately sent reinforcement to An napolli In lime to avo II from ihar hog tho some fate Boon after the formal for-mal declaration of war by llnnlin WM received In the provlneea and It produced pro-duced tho greatest excitement Tb French on ono hand and the Indian on the other caused a great deal of alarm and called forth molt vigorous effort for Btlfprotectlon Loulibure onus M alronnly fortined that Oov BhlrW though huis heart was set upon caplut Ing It moved very cautlouily lie decided de-cided that no regular ilege would avail 1011 II hat II m nmsnm lor Inkn hmy UIlo un I tue nrol h rUrl Ah1 AI a rrrt l ilnir > rniulni the aamundr rneaih uk SB Mh of wlwy w Virs he a old lay Infure them his com tWcall They ilelded In Ihe ret q re-t an I then the Onvernor revealrl 10 tIIm bus plan of taking lnitbur Tilt rr 1 wan Ion crest fr ese nf Ike fTn mnenuhers is I less alone In bun Mir detuiinn he sees heard lo liumt fish wills s ferveul prayer that Ih lslesu mt Heaven rnlBht alien the en trifletee Thom Ihe secret Jeakel ou Tilt isegluImse suse 01 firM sheouhy nl I ° st lo hue 11rlI < Iro lIsa lIst lb was tOOthy atI1 lor a mJonl sf clue flC5abm suee ci once cent In She ur rItDI nihirle nnd It wai aoon foun I Ihsb more voluntrera would offer them erpos thou oem neoslemh The rhlrf dia ilty Wo tn nnl s Inan mpolonl 10 ssrnrnsni eu borg l nn army and rin duel time rtge of ni fnrmldable a plaie Lnul iiirK The rhnlce nnally fell nn CI 1III10m ivpiierrtll n wealthy mer r unt ami withal very Hpular with nil JUMM The larraillc Dr Douglaa tn IIHntnt Itiwton salt that the u llltlon had a hamper fur n contriver n mmham fee general sob farmen nttfrmrn and mrchanlra tat milillcra Whln the eximlltlon renrhed Cape Httton In prll the ground wna cnvrre1 wllli Ire I lehhecrmhh emlKirkel hU tro p < nn the evening of the hell Thus lurjirlw of the Trrnrh was unbounded II look ai > me lime under Ihe greatest iIIBculIlM lo Ian I the tntopa and the htry Run Hut lepierrell was n man who rwvrr mow ImpoMlMHIlea and dlt nil undrnland Ihe word dlariiuragr mrtt llMldN he had under him men wh hid been arcuitiimed In the erer eel trials of frontier life until they hal I bxonie men of tlnewa of Iron TIle sIege 1 Itited mntyseyeus d hays On June I Iltitljtloni for I ience were lIIUh l IIIHn l shays liter lepHrrell cohered tho town whllo thus ihlpi of IsIs expedition expedi-tion solicit out of lisa harbor Never was n place morn mauled wllh cannon and shell wrote Pepperrell to Shir Icy I Neither have I read In history of my troop behaving wllh greeter courage cour-age Wo gave thrm about 0NX cannonball cannon-ball nnd COO bomb When tho new that Loulnburg wai taken reached lloaton at night nn uproar up-roar of malls and cannon proclaimed It to tIme alfrplng city Hefore lime sun roue the atreeta were lined wills shooting shoot-Ing crowd New York mid Phlladd phla lulled tho now with Illumination Illumina-tion ringing of belli and hIrIng of cannon When Iho IntrlllRcnco reached London Ih lord of regency ordered lImo Run In HIP tower lo lie I fired At night London and adjacent lon wore ahlaio with bonllrea Never did any great victory on tho continent fill ing land wllh more tumulluou Joy than thIs cnmiueat of Ioulilurc by lIme provincial pro-vincial troop Tho monument unveiled II I a Tuscan column about thslchy feet high Poe mounlcd by a cannon ball and landIng land-Ing on a prdrilal In the oil King Ilion bullion I bul-lion on which are Inscription which BUllably commemorate nn event out famnu In colonial nnnal The die I column nnd ball are nil pollthod |