Beauharnois granted Louis-Joseph a large seigneury, called Rocbert, on Lake Champlain. It was reunited to the king’s domain in 1741, but was returned to him on 9 July 1742. Michel also
operations. In March 1756 William Shirley, acting commander-in-chief, instructed him to raise a company of rangers for scouting and intelligence duties in the Lake Champlain region. Rogers did not invent this
Champlain’s advice, she and her family (i.e., her third husband, her 15-year-old son Guillaume, her surviving daughter
to inform Champlain of his arrival and, instead of remaining in safety in some port, he tried to go up the
Ross, a merchant trading to the West Indies, and Sophie-Éloïse Gouin; m. 8 Aug. 1854 Arline Lanouette, daughter of Joseph-Édouard Lanouette, in Champlain, Que.; they had no children; d. 4
they fled to Champlain, New York. Here Roussy met Dr Cyrille-Hector-Octave Côté*, a leader of the rebellion, whom he converted and
Champlain. Prior to his appointment as governor-general of New France on 23 March 1665, he was governor of Thionville in Lorraine. He arrived at Quebec with the intendant, Jean
decision to fortify the Lake Champlain approaches to the colony, Bleury entered his element. He became chief of the intendant’s transportation services in the region. His enormous fleet of bateaux, each
colony against Francis Nicholson, who was attacking via Lake Champlain. That same year Governor Rigaud de
which corroborates and adds further detail to the writings of Samuel de Champlain, and which provides us with
attacked by Colonel Francis Nicholson* and his army, invading the colony via Lake Champlain. Deschaillons was put in command of one of
Tracy’s expedition against the Iroquois in 1666.
On 8 Jan. 1668 Saint-Ours married Marie Mullois, daughter of Thomas Mullois, at Champlain
Champlain tells us, was that “he would rather have died than consent to such baseness as to betray his King.”
Since his urging and pleading were
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On the documentary sources see PAC Report, 1883; 1894; 1912, 18, 23–24. Champlain, Works (Biggar), V, VI, Coll. de manuscrits relatifs à la Nouv.-France, I
Acadian coasts as far as the Saint John River, and brought back to Champlain specimens taken from two mines. He
Champlain. Saunders had never commanded a fleet in a major action before, but on 9 Jan. 1759, recommended by Anson, he was appointed commander of the fleet bound for the St Lawrence. One month later
Quebec in October 1783. Savage applied for lands east of Lake Champlain.
The Allen brothers, who commanded the Green Mountain Boys, were then trying
Bay at the northern end of Lake Champlain. Her infant died there, but by chance Jemima was reunited briefly with her two youngest sons, Caleb and Squire. At Fort Saint-Jean in the spring, she was
Champlain and the Richelieu and St Lawrence rivers, not only threatening Quebec but also blocking the only practical route for supplying posts such as Niagara (near Youngstown, N.Y.), Detroit, and