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[Pierre]

JJ Designs is announcing for 2007 the release of figures related to the death of Daniel Hyacinthe Liénard de Beaujeu. Here is a short text about him in The Quebec History Encyclopedia:


Daniel Hyacinthe Liénard de Beaujeu


Beaujeu, Daniel Hyacinthe Liénard de (1711-1755), soldier, was born at Montreal on August 19, 1711, the son of Louis Liénard, Sieur de Beaujeu. He became an officer in the French army, and in 1749 was appointed commandant at Niagara. He was in command at the battle of the Monongahéla on July 8, 1755, and was killed early in the action. For many years he was regarded as "the hero of the Monongahéla" ; but it has now been shown that the battle was really won by the officer who succeeded him in command, Jean-Daniel Dumas. In 1737 he married at Quebec Michelle-Elisabeth Foucault; and he had by her nine children. Some of his letters, written while in command at Niagara in 1749, have been published in the Bulletin des recherches historiques, 1931.

Source: W. Stewart WALLACE, ed., The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. I, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 398p., p. 197.

© 2005 Claude Bélanger, Marianopolis College

 

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This is such a historically interesting period for all five countries (France, England, Canada, US, and the Indian nations). It was the proving ground for the AWI and for many of the personalities involved in that conflict.

I find that I am more and more drawn to this period both for collecting and learning. If only the conflict had been taken more seriously by either of the European powers, the US and Canada could be one country either a member of the commonwealth or as we are in the the US, a good ally of GB.

I believe it just shows that close neighbors sharing a common history have a common future. Its just disgusting that I will have to have a passport to visit my neighbors in the north.