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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bienville , Jean Baptiste le moyne 1680 -1701 (search)
Bienville, Jean Baptiste le moyne, 1680-1701
Pioneer; brother of Le Moyne Iberville, who founded a French settlement at Biloxi, near the mouth of the Mississippi, in 1698; born in Montreal, Feb. 23, 1680.
For several years he was in the French naval service with Iberville, and accompanied him with his brother Sauville to Louisiana.
In 1699 Bienville explored the country around Biloxi.
Sauville was appointed governor of Louisiana in 1699, and the next year Bienville constructed a fort 54 miles above the mouth of the river.
Sauville died in 1701, when Bienville took charge of the colony, transferring the seat of government to Mobile.
In 1704 he was joined by his brother Chateaugay, who brought seventeen settlers from France.
Soon afterwards a ship brought twenty young women as wives for settlers at Mobile.
Iberville soon afterwards died, and Bienville, charged with misconduct, was dismissed from office in 1707.
His successor dying on his way from( France, bienville retained
Charters,
Granted to corporate towns to protect their manufactures by Henry I. in 1132; modified by Charles II.
in 1683; the ancient charters restored in 1698.
Alterations were made by the Municipal Reform act in 1835.
Ancient Anglo-Saxon charters are printed in Kemble's Codex Diplomaticus, 1829.
For colonial charters in the United States, see different State articles.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), East India Company , the. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Iberville , Pierre Le Moyne , Sieur Da 1661 - (search)
Iberville, Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur Da 1661-
Founder of Louisiana; born in Montreal, Canada, July 16, 1661; was one of eleven brothers who figure in some degree in French colonial history.
Entering the French navy at fourteen, he became distinguished in the annals of Canada for his operations against the English in the north and east of that province.
In 1698 he was sent from France to the Gulf of Mexico with two frigates (Oct. 22), to occupy the mouth of the Mississippi and the region neglected after the death of La Salle.
On finding that stream, he received from the Indians a letter left by De Tonty, in 1686, for La Salle.
There he built Fort Biloxi, garrisoned it, and made his brother Bienville the King's lieutenant.
In May, 1699, he returned to France, but reappeared at Fort Biloxi in January, 1700.
On visiting France and returning in 1701, he found the colony reduced by disease, and transferred the settlement to Mobile, and began the colonization of Alabama.
Disease had
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Joncaire ,Jonquiere , Jacques Pierre De Taffanel , Marquis De La 1686 -1752 (search)
Joncaire, or Jonquiere, Jacques Pierre De Taffanel, Marquis De La 1686-1752
Naval officer; born in La Jonquiere, France, in 1686; entered the navy in 1698, and in 1703 was adjutant in the French army.
He was a brave and skilful officer, and was in many battles.
He became captain in the navy in 1736, and accompanied D'Anville in his expedition against Louisburg in 1745.
In 1747 he was appointed governor of Canada, but, being captured by the British, he did not arrive until 1749.
He died in Quebec, May 17, 1752.
Mohawk Indians,
The most celebrated of the Five Nations (see Iroquois Confederacy). Their proper name was Agmegue, and they called themselves, as a tribe, She-bears.
That animal was their totemic symbol.
The neighboring tribes called them Mahaqua, which name the English pronounced Mohawk.
Champlain and his followers, French and Indians from Canada, fought them in northern New York in 1609.
At Norman's Kill, below the site of Albany, the Dutch made a treaty with them in 1698, which was lasting; and the English, also, after the conquest of New Netherland, gained their friendship.
The French Jesuits gained many converts among them, and three villages of Roman Catholics on the St. Lawrence were largely filled with the Mohawks.
They served the English against the Canadians in the French and Indian War, and in the Revolutionary War, influenced by Sir William Johnson and his brother-in-law Brant, they made savage war on the patriots, causing the valleys in central New York to be
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nogaret , Stanislas Henry Lucien de 1682 -1759 (search)
Nogaret, Stanislas Henry Lucien de 1682-1759
Colonist; born in Marseilles, France, in 1682; enlisted in the army about 1698; ordered to Louisiana in 1716; and later appointed commander of Fort Rosalie.
In 1729 the Natchez Indians burned this fort and murdered nearly all the settlers in its vicinity.
Nogaret, with a few others, escaped, and a few months afterwards returned with a French force, defeated the Indians, and restored the fort.
He published Precis des établissements fondes dans la vallee du Mississippi par Le Chevalier Le Moyne de Bienville, suivi d'une histoire des guerres avec les Indiens Natchez.
He died in Paris in 1759