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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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    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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    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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    (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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    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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    British, Hanoverian and Austrian troops, and a French army commanded by the duc de Noailles. While the Earl of Stair exercised operational control, the Allied...
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Edmé Bouchardon, Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, Anne Claude de Caylus, Fortunato Felice, François Quesnay, Denis Diderot...
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  • northwest of České Budějovice in southern Bohemia, between the French under the Duc de Broglie and the Austrians under Lobkowicz. The battle was part of the...
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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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    Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Damarzit de Sahuguet. Histoire de Maurice, comte de Saxe, duc de Courlande et de Semigalle, Vol. 2, Paris, MDCCLXXV. p.283. Cust, Edward...
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    1st Northeast Coast Saratoga 2nd Northeast Coast Ile Saint-Jean d'Anville Expedition Fort Massachusetts Grand Pré Fort at Number 4 3rd Northeast Coast...
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    La Bourdonnais Original Squadron Achille (74 guns, only 70 guns on-ship) Duc d'Orléans (56 guns, only 36 guns on-ship) Bourbon (56 guns, only 34 guns...
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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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  • not for action, the Royals were unable to use them against the French. The Duc de Laval and his battalion of the Crillon brigade then came up behind the...
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    stalled, and the French, now commanded by Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle, took the offensive (1747). Genoa held out against a second...
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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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    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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    ensign, died aboard the Mercure on September 13, 1746, during the Duc d'Anville expedition. Antoine-Pierre de Becdelièvre (1734–1759) – Royal Navy guard,...
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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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  • 1741 and planned to conquer Vienna, but his allied French troops under the Duc de Belle-Isle were instead redirected to Bohemia. Maurice de Saxe, an experienced...
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