Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (16 July 1661 – 9 July 1706) or Sieur d'Iberville was a French soldier, explorer, colonial administrator, and trader. He is...
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the younger brother of explorer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne was the son of Charles le Moyne, born in Longueil, near Dieppe, and...
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explorer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, who arrived at the area in 1699. Almost 300 years later, D'Iberville officially became a city in 1988. D'Iberville was...
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1701 and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville founded La Nouvelle Orléans (New Orleans) in 1718. Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville founded Baton Rouge in...
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most famous ones being Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, founder of Louisiana with Biloxi (Mississippi) and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, co-founder...
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Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. Upon the death of d'Iberville (or Iberville), the settlement was governed by his younger brother, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne...
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Juneau. Mobile, Alabama was founded in 1702 by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and his brother Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne. It was the first capital of Louisiana. Natchitoches...
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D'Iberville, after Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, may refer to the following: D'Iberville, Mississippi D'Iberville High School, the town's local high school...
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Upper Louisiana French, and Louisiana Creole. Adventurers led by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville moved from Fort Maurepas in Biloxi, Mississippi to a wooded bluff...
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French ship Pélican (1693) (redirect from Le Pélican (1992))
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...
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Île d'Orléans to L'Ange-Gardien. The name evokes the explorer Pierre LeMoyne d'Iberville. The toponym "Rivière Lemoyne" was formalized on December 5, 1968...
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Le Moyne is an unincorporated community in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. It was named in honor of the Le Moyne brothers, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville...
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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...
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and Guatemala. The genus name of Ibervillea is in honour of Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (1661–1706), a soldier, ship captain, explorer, colonial administrator...
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Le Pélican, representing Pierre Le Moyne D'Iberville's ship. D'Iberville is named for the rue D'Iberville, in turn named in honour of Pierre Le Moyne...
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the Hudson Bay outposts continued. One of Troyes' lieutenants, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, made further expeditions against HBC holdings; these culminated...
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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...
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the tribes of the Wabanaki Confederacy, led by St. Castine and Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, returned and fought a naval battle in the Bay of Fundy before...
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a French Catholic tradition with the Le Moyne brothers, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, in the late 17th century...
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means one whose ancestors came from Canada. Biloxi, founded by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville Bourbonnais, Illinois, named after François Bourbonnais Chandler...
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population was 30,241 at the 2020 census. The parish is named for Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, who founded the French colony of Louisiana. A few archeological...
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was celebrated on March 3, 1699, and in honor of this holiday, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, a 38-year-old French Canadian, named the spot Point du Mardi...
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them in the 1540s, though little is known of that encounter. Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, founder of the colony of Louisiana, left a more detailed account...
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recorded history. Later explorers, such as Henri de Tonti and Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, give a fuller description of the early Houma. Iberville reported...
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the area of the Great Lakes, then on the Mississippi River. Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and his brother Lemoyne de Bienville founded Louisiana, Biloxi...
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population was 1,169 at the 2020 census. In 1699, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville discovered an indigenous Bayagoula...
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If they did not, it was likely that they would not survive. Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville, a French explorer and founder of the colony La Louisiane, understood...
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well as the Tangipahoa River and the village of Tangipahoa. Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville wrote that in the year 1650 the population of both the Acolapissa...
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from the Caddo word hadai meaning 'brushwood'. French explorer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville called them the Natao. Adai's name has also been written Adaizan...
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