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  2. Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville - Wikipedia

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    Awards. Order of Saint Louis. Signature. Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville [a] (16 July 1661 – 9 July 1706) [1] [2] or Sieur d'Iberville [a] was a French soldier, explorer, colonial administrator, and trader. He is noted for founding the colony of Louisiana in New France. He was born in Montreal to French colonist parents.

  3. Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville - Wikipedia

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    Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville ( French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist lə mwan də bjɛ̃vil]; / lə ˈmɔɪn də biˈɛnvɪl /; February 23, 1680 – March 7, 1767), also known as Sieur de Bienville, was a French-Canadian colonial administrator in New France. Born in Montreal, he was an early governor of French Louisiana, appointed four ...

  4. Avalon Peninsula campaign - Wikipedia

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    The Avalon Peninsula campaign occurred during King William's War when forces of New France, led by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and Governor Jacques-François de Monbeton de Brouillan, destroyed 23 English settlements along the coast of the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland in the span of three months. The campaign began with raiding Ferryland on ...

  5. Battle of Hudson's Bay - Wikipedia

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    During King William's War, France several times sent forces to Hudson Bay to capture or destroy the fort. In 1690, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville tried but was driven away by a larger English ship. In 1694, d'Iberville returned and captured York Factory with a show of force; he renamed it Fort Bourbon. English naval forces returned the next year ...

  6. French ship Pélican (1693) - Wikipedia

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    The Pélican was a French warship from the late 17th century. Built in Bayonne, France, the original Pélican was launched in January 1693. A 500-ton ship fitted with 50 guns and commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, she ran aground on the shores of Hudson Bay a few days after a heroic battle in 1697, badly damaged by the encounter and by a fierce storm.

  7. Old Mobile Site - Wikipedia

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    May 6, 1976 [1] The Old Mobile Site was the location of the French settlement La Mobile and the associated Fort Louis de La Louisiane, in the French colony of New France in North America, from 1702 until 1712. The site is located in Le Moyne, Alabama, on the Mobile River in the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta. The settlement served as the capital of ...

  8. Charles Joubert de La Bastide - Wikipedia

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    D'Iberville returned to France in 1697, where he was selected by the Ministry of the Navy at the head of an expedition to rediscover the mouth of the Mississippi and Louisiana to colonize the coveted British. Chateau-Morand is responsible for the escort.

  9. French aviso D'Iberville - Wikipedia

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    D′Iberville was a French Navy Bougainville -class aviso, designed to operate from French colonies in Asia and Africa. She was launched on 23 September 1934. After France surrendered to Germany in June 1940 during World War II, D′Iberville served with the navy of Vichy France. She was scuttled with other ships of the French fleet at Toulon ...

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