Jacques-Rene de Brisay de Denonville, Marquis de …
Years: 1686 - 1686
Jacques-Rene de Brisay de Denonville, Marquis de Denonville, replaces Joseph Antoine de LaBarre as Governor of New France in 1685, and sets out to make King Louis XIV proud.
The Iroquois Confederation has been a nuisance for half a century, hampering New France's efforts to establish itself as a profitable colony.
A peace treaty was signed in 1667, but the war is renewed in the 1680.
Although France and England are at peace, Denonville sends the newly arrived Pierre de Toyes, the Chevalier de Troyes, north from Montreal with a hundred men (most likely the Troupes de la marine), ...
Locations
People
- Jacques-René de Brisay de Denonville
- Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
- Pierre Le Moyne d’ Iberville
Groups
- Iroquois (Haudenosaunee, also known as the League of Peace and Power, Five Nations, or Six Nations)
- Meskwaki, or Fox tribe (Amerind tribe)
- Ojibwa, or Ojibwe, aka or Chippewa (Amerind tribe)
- New France (French Colony)
- France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of
Topics
- North American Fur Trade
- Colonization of the Americas, French
- Colonization of the Americas, English
- Beaver Wars, or French and Iroquois Wars
