Joseph Coulon de Villiers, Sieur de Jumonville (September 8, 1718 – May 28, 1754) was a French Canadian military officer. His last rank was second ensign...
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Army. He was the son of Nicolas Antoine Coulon de Villiers and Elizabeth Le Couturier. Louis Coulon de Villiers entered the military in 1733. He had risen...
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Nicolas Antoine Coulon, chevalier de Villiers (1683 – September 1733) was a military officer in New France. Born in Brittany and baptized March 20, 1683...
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François Coulon de Villiers (1712 – 22 May 1794) was a French military officer from an influential military family in the French and Indian War and then...
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Nicolas-Antoine Coulon de Villiers and Angelique Jarret de Verchères. His brothers were Louis Coulon de Villiers, François Coulon de Villiers and Joseph Coulon de Jumonville...
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attacks by his force unless they were provoked. On May 23, he sent Joseph Coulon de Villiers de Jumonville with 35 men to see if Washington had entered French...
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Lieutenant Joseph Coulon de Villiers, Sieur de Jumonville commanded this group of French soldiers. The British ambushed the French, during which the Sieur de Jumonville...
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time of 180 acres (73 ha) and 11 buildings. It is named after Joseph Coulon de Villiers de Jumonville, who was killed during a skirmish with George Washington...
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in North America, Joseph Coulon de Jumonville was killed by Native Americans. He was the son of Nicolas-Antoine Coulon de Villiers and the half-brother...
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King"), ambushed a force of 35 French Canadians under the command of Joseph Coulon de Jumonville. A larger French Canadian force had driven off a small crew...
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Pennsylvania by killing French soldiers and a French diplomate Joseph Coulon de Villiers de Jumonville. At that time, Frankford Township was near the edge...
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On May 23, Contrecœur, now in command at Fort Duquesne, sent Joseph Coulon de Villiers de Jumonville with 35 Canadiens to see if Washington had entered...
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group of Hurons from Notre-Dame-de-Lorette to Fort Duquesne as part of an expedition led by Louis Coulon de Villiers to the Ohio country in 1754. In May...
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War Louis Coulon de Villiers who is the only officer to whom Washington ever surrendered. François Coulon de Villiers another of the Coulon brothers who...
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Douville de Quindre. In 1737, he married Marie-Madeleine Regnard Duplessis, the daughter of Nicolas Antoine Coulon de Villiers. In 1741, Marin de la Perrière...
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Governor Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial, was the furthest west on the Missouri at the time. Its first commandant was François Coulon de Villiers who came from...
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Colonel George Washington, to the French and Indians, under Louis Coulon de Villiers. The site also includes the Mount Washington Tavern, once one of the...
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Nicolas Antoine II Coulon de Villiers and Louis de la Corne, Chevalier de la Corne under orders from Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay, the French...
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Villiers, who was the only military commander to force George Washington to surrender (after avenging the murder of his half brother Joseph Coulon de...
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Francois Coulon de Villiers (not his brother, Louis Coulon de Villiers, as is often written incorrectly) attacked the fort. About midnight, Coulon's men succeeded...
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Glen encounter was told to Jumonville's half-brother, Captain Louis Coulon de Villiers, by a deserter at the mouth of Redstone Creek during his expedition...
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François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, in May 1756 French and Indian raiding parties under the command of Louis Coulon de Villiers began harassing...
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1754 – Washington surrenders to Jumonville's half-brother Louis Coulon de Villiers in the Battle of the Great Meadows in Fayette County, Pennsylvania...
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d'Anville Expedition, ordered his subordinate Nicolas Antoine II Coulon de Villiers with two hundred and fifty Canadians and fifty Mi'Kmaq to fight against...
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of Fort Necessity to Louis Coulon de Villiers in 1754, and the subsequent Battle of the Monongahela to Charles Michel de Langlade and Jean-Daniel Dumas...
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surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers. 2 February – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French politician (d. 1838) 15 January...
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de Beaujeu Louis Coulon de Villiers Chevalier de la Corne Charles Le Moyne Joseph-François Hertel de la Fresnière Jean Vauquelin Duc d'Anville Joseph...
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children: François-Louis (1739) (ref: Joachime Coulon de Villiers in 1762 in Fort Chartres), Marie-Joseph (1741), Etienne (1742), François-Xavier (1743)...
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of Detroit and harder for the British to reach. Lieutenant Louis Coulon de Villiers was sent to the dilapidated Fort Miamis and given authority to commandeer...
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Port-la-Joye. Under the command of Joseph de Pont Duvivier, the French had a garrison of 20 French troops (Compagnies Franches de la Marine) at Port-la-Joye....
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