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following year he informed Frontenac [Buade*] that he had held the rank of lieutenant in the Régiment Clairambault; in a
* de Frontenac and his allies. He chose Abbé Jean Dudouyt*. The mission that was entrusted to
Buade* de Frontenac leased to the two men the post he had founded at Cataracoui, which was strategically located for trade with the Iroquois and some of the western tribes. The following year, however
 
the English under William Phips*. In April the following year Governor Frontenac
 Moyne brothers was brought up in France as a page of one of Buade* de Frontenac’s relatives, the Maréchal d’Humières
 
Frontenac [Buade*] officially confirmed Maricourt as commander in Hudson Bay in the event of Iberville’s absence or death
, with prize furs. Iberville had returned to Quebec from James Bay just in time to take part in the winter campaign of 1690 which Governor Frontenac
 
Buade* de Frontenac’s 1696 expedition against the Iroquois, Le Picard was described as one of the four “senior captains” who each commanded a battalion of regular troops. The notarial archives
 
signed a contract before the notary Genaple for the building of a powder magazine in one of the bastions of Fort Saint-Louis. In 1693 Frontenac
 
Buade* de Frontenac’s funeral. La Potherie never ceased to consider the latter as the ideal governor, the father of the country. Having a high, perhaps too high, conception of his role, he was
 
Buade* de Frontenac, the Recollets” syndic, the construction of the hospice went on for two years, under the displeased eye of the bishop, who was only waiting for a pretext to intervene. This pretext
 
de Champigny, who regarded him as little more than Buade* de Frontenac’s ally in the fur trade, Le Sueur
 
Buade* de Frontenac and of Intendant de Meulles, lieutenant general of Trois-Rivières, seigneur of Rivière
 
only on 16 Nov. 1705. Buade* de Frontenac had for him “a particular esteem and friendship
 
Lachine massacre, Denonville decided to abandon Fort Frontenac, which was vulnerable to Iroquois attacks. Legardeur de Repentigny offered his services to the governor to go and take the withdrawal order to
 
ensign, and for the rest of his life was prominent in military affairs. After 1690 most of his career was spent in the western country. He was at Fort Frontenac in 1689, however, and assisted in an attack
 
. Leneuf became a sub-lieutenant in 1690. In May 1691, on Buade* de Frontenac’s orders, he went by boat from Quebec
 
the fishing industry, farming, settlement, and soldiering. On 24 Oct. 1676 Buade* de Frontenac granted him
 
Buade* de Frontenac took him along on his 1673 expedition to the pays d’en haut. Later, in 1686, Lenoir was to take part in another official expedition, that led by the Chevalier de
 
in contact with his friends in Canada, particularly with Buade* de Frontenac, who gave him news of the colony in a
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