I Island Battery, situation of, 15; its value to the besieged, 93 and _note_ 100; disastrous attack upon, 112, 113; its fire silenced, 116; in our hands, 119. Ile Royale, see Cape Breton, 32. Isle Madame, or Arichat, 76. L Lighthouse Point, 14; is seized and fortified, 109. Louisburg, the approach to, 14; the harbor, 15; old city, 15; old fortifications perambulated, 17; hills back of, 17; natural defences of, 18; demolition of the works, 19; and present state of, 19; Citadel, 20; natural obstacles to surmount, 21; bomb-proofs, 21; impregnable from sea, 21; graveyard and its inmates, 22; Royal Battery, 23; reasons why the fortress was erected, 24 _et seq._; to be a great mart, 28; to help Acadia, 29; called English Harbor, 31; chosen for a fortress, 32; why called Louisburg, 32; operations begun, 33; prisoners shipped to, from France, 37; strength and cost of the fortress, 38 and _note_ 45; could be defended by women, 39; its armament, 39; garrison sallies out upon Nova Scotia, 44; its fall the salvation of New England, 47; schemes for its capture, 50; its garrison mutinies, 51; forces being raised against it, 56, 57; early suggestions for its conquest, _note_ 58; is blockaded, 73; is invested, 89; its defences as related to the siege, 93; progress of siege operations, 95 _et seq._; summoned to surrender, 96; breaching batteries, 106; progress of siege, 109; a relieving vessel gets in, 110; capture of the Vigilant, 110; stratagem tried, 115; its success, 115; a general bombardment, 116; a suspension of arms, 118; the surrender, 123; the garrison, 123, 124; importance to Great Britain as a political make-weight, 126 _et seq._; restored to France, 127; many-sided importance of the conquest to the colonies, 128, 129; disgust in the colonies at its restoration, 129; cost of the campaign, _note_ 131; rejoicings, _note_ 131. M Meserve, Lieutenant-Colonel, his services at Louisburg, 94. Micmacs of Cape Breton, 37. Mira River, settlements on, 16. Moody, Rev. Samuel, his pithy prayer, 124. Moore, Samuel, at Louisburg, _note_ 72. Moulton, Jeremiah, at Louisburg, _note_ 71; destroys St. Peter’s, 96.