Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Capture of Louisbourg 1758, silver, by T. Pingo, toned, extremely fine and very rare £3000-3600

As part of a multiple offensive during the later French and Indian wars, a British expedition commanded by General Jeffrey Amherst with about 9000 British regular troops and 500 Colonials, supported by 40 ships under Admiral Edward Boscawen, invested the French fortress of Louisbourg. The expedition landed under heavy fire on 8 June 1758, and beseiged the garrison which, after intense fighting, surrendered on 27 July. The young Brigadier-General James Wolfe distinguished himself in the fighting which resulted in the first major victory of the war. Wolfe’s subsequent victory at Quebec the following year established British supremacy in Canada.