Fort Ste. Anne is a former

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military fort located at present-day

Englishtown, Nova Scotia Englishtown is an unincorporated area in the Municipality of the County of Victoria, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is the site of the Englishtown Ferry cable ferry that carries Nova Scotia Route 312 across St. Anns Harbour. The area was known as Mo ...

, on the Island of Cape Breton,

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, Canada. The fort was built by Captain Charles Daniel (1629) after he raided Baleine. The fort was occupied from 1639 to 1641. Fort Saint Anne is
National Historic Site

Associated Forts

Two other military forts were eventually built adjacent to the fort: Simon Denys Fort (1650-1659) and

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(1713-1758).

Fort Dauphin

After

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, French officer

Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville (26 October 1668 – 30 June 1722) was a colonial military officer of New France in the French Marines in Canada. He is best known in North America for leading the raid on Deerfield, in western Province of Ma ...

and others established Fort Dauphin in 1713 as the capital of

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, prior to the establishment of

Louisbourg Louisbourg is an unincorporated community and former town in Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia. History The harbour had been used by European mariners since at least the 1590s, when it was known as English Port and Havre à l'An ...

. De Rouville played a role in the early settlement of both present-day Englishtown (1719-1722) and St. Peter's (1713-1718). Philippe de Pastour de Costebelle

As commodore of the fleet, Edward Tyng led 13 armed vessels and about 90 transports in the successful

Siege of Louisbourg (1745) The siege of Louisbourg took place in 1745 when a New England colonial force aided by a British fleet captured Louisbourg, the capital of the French province of Île-Royale (present-day Cape Breton Island) during the War of the Austrian Succ ...

. He participated in the Capture of the Vigilant and the destruction of Port Dauphin (Englishtown) in June 1745, burning 40 houses and an equal number of vessels.p. 36
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Map 1764
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at Englishtown * Buildings and structures in Victoria County, Nova Scotia Military forts in Nova Scotia Military forts in Acadia Buildings and structures completed in 1629 1629 establishments in the French colonial empire 1629 establishments in Nova Scotia {{fort-stub