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People: Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway
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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), ...