Jean Baptiste de La Rochefoucauld, Duke of Anville (redirect from Duc d'Anville)
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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Louis Alexandre de La Rochefoucauld, 6th Duke of La Rochefoucauld (redirect from Louis-Alexandre, duc de La Rochefoucauld d'Enville)
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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Jean-Louis Le Loutre (section Duc d'Anville Expedition)
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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François Bigot (redirect from L'Affaire du Canada)
(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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Prince Edward Island (redirect from Île-du-Prince-Édouard)
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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