The King's Bastion Let's continue your travels through time from the original fortress plans to the grassy mounds that were the ruins of the original walls. After the second siege of Louisbourg, the British hired a team of mining engineers to destroy the fortress walls once and for all! Little did they realize that about 200 years later, those same walls would be reconstructed. Parts of the walls of the King's Bastion stood the test of time and a great deal of the original fortress site went through archaeological excavation during the 1930's. The ruins were capped, or stabilized, which proved to be an invaluable procedure for later archaeological efforts on the site. After the walls are built, and the building is reconstructed, it must be furnished, which is also a challenging task.
Fifers marching (Grand Encampment 1999).
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