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Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville
French soldier (–)
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville[a] (16 July – 9 July )[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.
Early life
Pierre Le Moyne was born in July at Fort Ville-Marie (now Montreal), in the French colony of Canada, the third son[1] of Charles le Moyne de Longueuil et de Châteauguay, a native of Dieppe or of Longueuil near Dieppe, Normandy in France and lord of Longueuil in Canada, and of Catherine Thierry&#;[fr] (called Catherine Primot in some sources) from Rouen.[1][3] He is also known as Sieur d'Iberville (et d'Ardillières).[1][2]
He had eleven brothers, most of whom became soldiers.
One, Jacques Le Moyne de Sainte-Hélène, led French and Indian forces in the Schenectady massacre in present-day New York's Mohawk Valley.
Biography of isaac On 27 February he set out with two rowboats, two birch canoes and forty-eight men in search of the mouth of the Mississippi, which he discovered on 2 March, Sierra On-Line Inc. This story illustrates the benefits of the future New Orleans area as a port , the size of the French presence on the Mississippi at this early date, and d'Iberville's questionable business practices. Sies, Luther F rank —.Charles le Moyne de Longueuil, Baron de Longueuil, was governor of Montreal. Another, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne Bienville, founded New Orleans. Jacques and Paul LeMoyne were with him on James Bay, and Joseph LeMoyne was with him in Louisiana.
Le Moyne d'Iberville was raised Catholic under the Jesuit order. Parish records indicate that he made his First Communion at the age of [4] Like most young men of his background, who received a classical and religious education, d'Iberville was educated in a Sulpician seminary.[5]
Destined for the priesthood, he chose the military vocation.
At the age of 12, he became a cabin boy on his uncle's ship trading to Port Royal, Acadia. A few years later he was in the fur trade at Sault Ste. Marie in Canada, where he would have learned something of canoe travel in the wilderness. He later became quartermaster on one of his father's ships.
Hudson Bay expeditions
Main article: Anglo-French conflicts on Hudson Bay
The Hudson's Bay Company was founded in This company diverted furs away from Quebec and threatened further expansion into French territory.
In , the Compagnie du Nord was founded to compete with the English on the Bay. In , the aggressive Governor General Denonville decided to drive out the English even though the two countries were at peace.
Under the command of Pierre de Troyes, Chevalier de Troyes, d'Iberville his brothers Paul and Jacques led the Canadian woodsmen on a expedition to Hudson Bay.
He played a heroic part in the capture of the fort at Moose Factory. At Fort-Rupert, he captured the sloopCraven and killed at least one unarmed sailor. As a result, the French seized all three English posts on James Bay, leaving the English only York Factory which was far to the northwest and inaccessible by land.
De Troyes left in August , leaving d'Iberville in charge with 40 men. The following summer, when no supplies arrived, d'Iberville left 12 men at the forts and went first south to Quebec and then to France. In France, he lobbied for the Compagnie and obtained command of Soleil D'Afrique and returned to James Bay in the summer of There he captured three HBC ships that were trying to re-establish their position on James Bay.
Returning to Quebec, he was caught up in King William's War and sent south to attack the British colonies (see below).
In July , he left Quebec with three ships in the hope of capturing York Factory. Finding himself outgunned by a larger English ship, he fled south and captured the new HBC base at Fort Severn. In and , he again planned to attack York Factory, but both times the needed ships were diverted.
It was before he could effect the capture of York Factory.
His work was undone when the English recaptured Fort Albany in and York Factory in and were spent in coastal raiding. In he captured York Factory a second time after winning his most heroic battle. It was too late in the season to capture Fort Albany, so he left Hudson Bay, never to return. York Factory remained French until
King William's War
In , he was second in command to his brother Jacques in a raid south to New York that culminated in the Schenectady Massacre.
Sieur d iberville biography of abraham maslow Search: Submit Search. At Santo Domingo the warship "Francois" joined the expedition and accompanied it to its destination. As a result, the French seized all three English posts on James Bay, leaving the English only York Factory which was far to the northwest and inaccessible by land. He went to Havana , where he was involved in planning an expedition against Charles Town, Carolina an English colonial settlement , when he died suddenly, perhaps of yellow fever , in July,In , he convoyed supply ships from France and harassed English coastal settlements, taking three prizes. In , he returned to Hudson Bay and captured York Factory for the first time.
In the spring of , he sailed from France with three ships. Sending one to Quebec, he led the other two to the aid of the governor of Acadia, Joseph Robineau de Villebon, whom the English were blockading at the mouth of the Saint John River.
He captured one enemy ship and drove the other two away. He then went miles west and captured the most northerly settlement in New England, Pemaquid, Siege of Pemaquid (), 14 August.
He then sailed east to Placentia, the French capital of Newfoundland, and began the Avalon Peninsula Campaign on 1 November. On this expedition he captured St.
John's and ruined most of the English fishing villages. During four months of raids, Iberville was responsible for the destruction of 36 settlements.
The Newfoundland campaign was one of the cruelest and most destructive of Iberville's career. Before he could consolidate his hold on Newfoundland, he was diverted north to capture York Factory for a second time during the summer of Soon after his departure, the English arrived in Newfoundland with 2, troops and restored their position.
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Exploring Louisiana
In , René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle was the first European to travel from the Great Lakes down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. The French began dreaming of building a great empire by linking the Saint Lawrence and Mississippi basins, thereby bottling up the English on the Atlanticcoast.
This presented diplomatic problems; the Gulfcoast was claimed, though not occupied, by Spain.
Pontchartrain, the minister for naval affairs and colonies, gave d'Iberville the task of locating the mouth of the Mississippi River, which La Salle had failed to find on his last expedition, and building a fort which would block the river to other nations.
D'Iberville left Brest with four ships in October He sailed along the Florida coast, past the base the Spanish were building at Pensacola.
In March , he entered the Birdfoot Delta. It was only after meeting some Indians who remembered La Salle that he was sure that this was the Mississippi. Having achieved his first aim and finding no good sites in the delta, he built a temporary fort Fort Maurepas at Ocean Springs, Mississippi, left a garrison of 81 men, and returned to France.
On his second voyage, he reached Biloxi in January He built a second "Fort Maurepas" 40 miles up the Mississippi River. On his return journey, he is said to have stopped at New York City and sold 9, furs that coureurs des bois had given him, in preference to hauling them back to Montreal. This story illustrates the benefits of the future New Orleans area as a port, the size of the French presence on the Mississippi at this early date, and d'Iberville's questionable business practices.
On his third voyage in February , he built a fort at Mobile. Here, Henri de Tonti aided him in establishing good relations with the Indians. He left Louisiana for the last time in April His brother Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville founded New Orleans in
Queen Anne's War and his death
In , England and France were again at war (War of the Spanish Succession, –, the North American theater of which was Queen Anne's War).
D'Iberville had contracted malaria on the Gulf coast, and both his health and judgment seem to have deteriorated.
Early in , he left France in command of twelve vessels. A squadron under Henri-Louis de Chavagnac devastated Saint Kitts. From 1 to 22 April, d'Iberville and Chavagnac devastated the island of Nevis and took much of the population prisoner.[6]
He went to Havana, where he was involved in planning an expedition against Charles Town, Carolina (an English colonial settlement), when he died suddenly, perhaps of yellow fever, in July, D'Iberville was buried at Church of San Cristóbal (Havana Cathedral); the burial records identify him under his French name, and as El General Dom Pedro Berbila.[7][8]
After his death, his estate became involved in an inquiry that dragged on for more than thirty years.
D'Iberville had acquired a large fortune by uncertain means. The accounts of the West Indian expedition were hopelessly disorganized; there were accusations of embezzlement.
Sieur d iberville biography of abraham He sailed along the Florida coast, past the base the Spanish were building at Pensacola. Exploring Louisiana [ edit ]. On his third voyage in February , he built a fort at Mobile. Then, copy and paste the text into your bibliography or works cited list.His widow, Marie Thérèse Pollet (–) was forced to pay back a large part of her inheritance.
D'Iberville was perhaps the first great soldier born in Canada. Students of the art of war may see his career as an example of the importance of following up after a victory, for he won all his battles but never was able to consolidate what he had won.
Honours
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville was a knight of the Order of Saint-Louis.[2]
Legacy
The following works and sites are named for d'Iberville:
- D'Iberville, a 39 episode television series on Radio-Canada from to
- The city of Iberville, Quebec, now a district of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
- A high school in Longueuil, Quebec, on the south shore of Montreal, is named after him.
- A secondary school in Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, bears the name D'Iberville
- Avenue Iberville, located in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada
- Rue D'Iberville and the adjacent D'Iberville metro station in Montreal, Quebec
- The provincial electoral district of Iberville, Quebec
- Mont d'Iberville, the highest mountain in Quebec
- The city of D'Iberville, Mississippi
- Iberville Parish, Louisiana[9]
- Iberville Street in New Orleans, Louisiana
- Rue d'Iberville in Chicoutimi, Québec
- Rue Iberville in Radisson, Québec
- Rue d'Iberville in Alma, Québec
- D'Iberville St.
in Carbonear, Newfoundland
- A number of French ships, notably:
- A torpedo aviso, one of the first French ships to be designated as a "contre-torpilleur" (destroyer)
- A colonial sloop scuttled in Toulon harbor on 27 November
- CCGS&#;D'Iberville, Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker.
- Has a statue in Mobile erected in , a gift from Hand Arendall, L.L.C.
- The cafeteria at Northwestern State University of Louisiana is named for him.
- Ibervillea, a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae, from Central America and Mexico.[10]
See also
Notes
References
- ^ abcdFortier, Alcée ().
"Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville"&#;. In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol.&#;7. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ abcPothier, Bernard () [].
Biography of abraham bible: ISBN D'Iberville left Brest with four ships in October Iberville's fleet sailed from Brest on 24 October, Iberville became a sailor at an early age and served as a volunteer under the Chevalier de Troyes in Hudson Bay.
"Le Moyne d'Iberville at d'Ardillières, Pierre". In Hayne, David (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol.&#;II (–) (online&#;ed.). University of Toronto Press.
- ^She was baptized at Saint-Denis-la-Petite parish church (now destroyed)
- ^Crouse, Nellis Maynard () []. Lemoyne d'Iberville: Soldier of New France (reprint&#;ed.).
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
- ^Crouse (), p.&#;9
- ^Hubbard, Vincent K. (). Swords, Ships & Sugar: History of Nevis. Corvallis, Oregon: Premiere, ISBN&#;, pp. –
- ^"Pierre le Moyne d'Iberville – &#; Virtual Museum of New France".
- ^Un héros québécois à La Havane, Pierre Lahoud,
- ^Gannett, Henry ().
The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. p.&#;
- ^"Ibervillea Greene | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 15 May
Bibliography
- Frégault, Guy. Iberville le conquérant. (Montréal, ).