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    known for leading the French fleet on the disastrous Duc d'Anville Expedition to Acadia. D'Anville was born on 17 August 1707, the son of Marthe Ducasse...
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    (nowadays Cape Breton Island), commissary general of the ill-fated Duc d'Anville expedition and finally as the Intendant of New France. He was the last official...
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  • Thumbnail for Jean-Baptiste du Casse
    Rochefoucauld de Roye, who became a naval officer and led the ill-fated Duc d'Anville Expedition. He went into the slave trade with the Compagnie de Sénégal, sailing...
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    Jean-Baptiste de La Rochefoucauld de Roye, who was killed in the 1746 Duc d'Anville expedition, and Marie-Louise-Nicole de La Rochefoucauld, eldest daughter of...
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    organized with Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay and the ill-fated Duc d'Anville Expedition in 1746. With Louisbourg captured by the British, Le Loutre became...
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    major expedition to recover Louisbourg in 1746. Beset by storms, disease, and finally the death of its commander, the Duc d'Anville, the expedition's survivors...
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  • on Trident before transferring to Argonaute and taking part in Duc d'Anville expedition. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1756. That year, during the Seven...
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    launched a major expedition to recover Acadia in 1746. Beset by storms, disease, and finally the death of its commander, the Duc d'Anville, it returned to...
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    recapture Acadia, an expedition under the command of de Ramezay was sent from Quebec to work with the Duc d'Anville Expedition. De Ramezay's force arrived...
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    hunting grounds. In 1746, the grand expedition was organized in France under the command of the Duc d'Anville. The expedition was composed of 20 warships, 21...
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  • November 1743. He served on the 32-gun frigate Perle and took part in Duc d'Anville expedition to Acadia under La Rochefoucauld. He served on the 64-gun Lys and...
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    Ramezay was sent from Quebec to the region to join forces with the Duc d'Anville expedition. Upon arriving at Chignecto, he sent Boishebert to Île Saint-Jean...
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    Perier de Salvert (1730-1803), count of Salvert, took part in the Duc d'Anville expedition (1746), the Battle of Minorca (1756), the Battle of Lagos (1759)...
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    16, 1745. A major expedition by the French to recapture the fortress led by Jean-Baptiste de La Rochefoucauld de Roye, duc d'Anville, the following year...
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  • Thumbnail for Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot
    Ramezay was sent from Quebec to the region in 1746 to support the Duc d'Anville Expedition in its effort to regain Acadia. Upon arriving at Fort Beauséjour...
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    Edmé Bouchardon, Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, Anne Claude de Caylus, Fortunato Felice, François Quesnay, Denis Diderot...
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    the siege, and Louisbourg fell to the British. With the famed Duc d'Anville Expedition, France attempted to retake Acadia and the fortress in 1746 but...
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    war, the French launched a massive invasion fleet in 1746, the Duc d'Anville expedition, to retake both Port Royal and Louisbourg, which had fallen to...
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    Both France and Britain planned expeditions to North America in the wake of the capture. The great Duc d'Anville Expedition led by Admiral Jean-Batiste,...
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    60-gun Trident, under Captain d'Estourmel, and took part in the Duc d'Anville expedition. Suffren graduated from the Gardes-Marine in 1747 as an ensign...
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    reinforcements. They never received the assistance they required from the Duc d'Anville Expedition and were forced to retreat.: 359  The Seven Years' War (1756–1763)...
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    capital Annapolis Royal, the most famous attempt being the failed Duc d'Anville expedition. They regained fortress Louisbourg at the peace treaty. The French...
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    in the Ethiopian Empire Fabaceae Qu Anvillea Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697–1782) Asteraceae Bu Appertiella Otto Appert (1930–2012), Swiss clergyman...
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    breach of alliance terms. The French Duc d'Anville expedition was launched in 1746, the largest military expedition to sail from Europe for the Americas...
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    launched a major expedition to recover Acadia in 1746. Beset by storms, disease, and finally the death of its commander, the Duc d'Anville, it returned to...
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    British were alarmed by the sudden departure of a French fleet under d'Anville (which met with its own failure in attempting the retaking of Louisbourg)...
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    ship Mercure, which was part of the squadron under the orders of the duc d'Anville in 1746 to recapture Cape Breton Island. This squadron was met on its...
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    and others were taken prisoner. After the failure of the French Duc d'Anville Expedition to recapture Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia Governor Paul Mascarene...
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    capture of HMS Northumberland in 1744 and participated in the failed Duc d'Anville expedition of 1746. He later commanded a squadron of four warships and two...
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    launched a major expedition to recover Acadia in 1746. Beset by storms, disease, and finally the death of its commander, the Duc d'Anville, it returned to...
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