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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    Le Moyne (1828–1918), U.S. Representative from Illinois Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (1661–1706), founder of French Louisiana Sarah Cowell Le Moyne (1859–1915)...
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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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    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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  • Encounter at York Factory (1690), a naval encounter by a force under Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and the English in Hudson's Bay near York Factory during King...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • like the Biloxi. French explorer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville visited the tribe in 1699, and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville in 1725. Donald...
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  • the events of Acadia from 1685 until his death. In 1690, with Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, he attacked York Fort, in Hudson Bay. He participated in the...
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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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    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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    Mississippi River delta. The islands were named when the explorer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville was sailing in search of the mouth of the Mississippi River along...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • landing in Ocean Springs of the 17th-century French explorer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. Along the opposite wall he painted what he called the "Seven...
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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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    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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    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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  • later as a chaplain during military expeditions carried on by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. Jean Baudoin studied at the College of Nantes with the intention...
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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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