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OFFICERS OF ISLE ROYALE (1744) -
ACCOMMODATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARIES
BY
A. J. B. JOHNSTON
1978
Report H E 12
Fortress of Louisbourg
OFFICERS (1744) - BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARIES
Staff Officers
Ca. 1670 - Born near Rouen, France, son of François Le Coutre de Bourville and Elisabeth Faustin.
1690-1718 - Entered French naval service as a midshipman in 1690. Over the next 28 years "he participated in 21 expeditions, 16 in wartime and took part in a total of 11 actions."
1718 - Appointed major de la place, for Isle Royale; Bourville's first land appointment.
Summer of 1719 - Arrived in Isle Royale.
December 1721 - Named to the Order of Saint-Louis.
October 1722 - Conceded land at Louisbourg, Lot A on Block 12.
January 1729 - Married Marie-Anne Rousseau de Villejouin, daughter of Gabriel Rousseau de Villejouin and Marie-Josephe Bertrand.
March 1730 - Promoted to lieutenant de roi at Louisbourg; subsequently commanded colony during absences of governor.
April 1744 - Retired with 1,200 livres pension.
Late 1744 - Returned to France with wife and two daughters.
1758 or earlier - Died in France.
January 1686 - Born in Sérignac, France (province of Saintonge) on 1 January; son of Hugues du Pont du Vivier and Marie Herauld.
May 1702 - Entered military as an enseigne, in Acadia.
May 1704 - Promoted to lieutenant.
April 1709 - Married Jeanne d'Entremont at Port Royal. A number of children were born of this marriage, but apparently only one at Louisbourg - Charles François Ferdinand in November 1734.
January 1714 - Posted to Isle Royale.
July 1720 - Promoted to captain of one of companies franches.
March 1723 - Made commander of detachment at Port Dauphin.
June 1730 - Became chevalier of Order of Saint-Louis.
June 1733 - Promoted to major de la place at Louisbourg.
June 1737 - Made lieutenant de roi of Isle Saint-Jean.
April 1744 - Upon retirement of Bourville, du Chambon returned to Louisbourg to become lieutenant de roi of Isle Royale.
November 1744 to 1745 - After death of Governor Duquesnel, du Chambon became the interim commander of Isle Royale. He was in command of the fortress throughout the 1745 siege. Returned to France after the siege.
March 1746 - Retired from military life with 1,200 livres pension; resided in native province of Saintonge..
August 1775 - Died in France on August 22.
1691 - Born in France; one source says born in Paris, while another says originally from former province of Normandie. Son of Rend Eurry de la Pérelle and Marie Dumoulin.
1705 - Named as enseigne in one of the compagnies franches; had been a cadet.
1713 - Transferred to Isle Royale following signing of Treaty of Utrecht.
1714 - Promoted to lieutenant.
1718 or 1719 - Married Françoise-Charlotte Aubert de la Chesnaye (1697-1784), daughter of an important negoçiant at Quebec. De la Pérelle and de la Chesnaye were to have eight children, all born at Louisbourg.
1730 - Made capitaine of one of the compagnies franches in the Louisbourg garrison.
1732 - Commandant of detachment on Isle Saint-Jean.
1736 - Named as chevalier of order of Saint-Louis.
1741-45 - Promoted to major de la place at Louisbourg in 1741, in which capacity he served until the fortress capitulated in 1745. Returned to France following the siege.
1747 - Fauteux states that de la Pérelle was killed aboard Le Rubris during naval combat on 14 May 1747. H.P. Thibault says that he died sometime between 1768 and 1776.
Date and place of birth are unknown. This de Boisberthelot was the nephew of Jean-Maurice Josué du Boisberthelot de Beaucours and François Aubert de la Chesnaye.
May 1723 - Letter of appointment making Boisberthelot an enseigne en second at Louisbourg was signed at Versailles.
March 1730 - Promoted to enseigne en pied, according to letter of appointment dated at Versailles.
October 1730 - Married Jeanne Degoutin at Louisbourg. First child of marriage born the day after the wedding. Six other children were born at Louisbourg. before 1745.
June 1732 - Letter of appointment making him a lieutenant was signed at Versailles.
June 1742-1745 - Promoted to aide-major in June 1742, in which capacity he acted during the siege of 1745.
1745-46 - He died sometime shortly after returning to France. By February 1746 he was referred to as dead.
Ca. 1704 - Born at Port Royal, son of Jean-Chrysostome Loppinot and Jeanne Doucet.
1716 - Began military service, probably as a cadet.
May 1730 - Made enseigne en second of one of the compagnies franches at Louisbourg.
January 1733 - Married Mari e-Magdelaine Bottier dit Berrichon (1717-79). Twelve children were born to the marriage.
1734 - In charge of a detachment building a road from Louisbourg to the Mira River.
April 1737 - Promoted to enseigne en pied.
1745 - Acted as one of two qarçons-ma'or on du Chambon!s staff dûring the siege. Following the capitulation of the fortress he returned to France with the other inhabitants.
1746-49 - In France worked to recruit new soldiers for the troops of the Ministry of Marine; commanded some of the Isle Royale troops stationed near Rochefort. On 1 January 1747 he was promoted to aide-major.
1749 - Became aide-major of garrison at Louisbourg, with rank of capitaine. 1753 - Fauteux states that Loppinot "fit fonction de major à Louisbourg àpartir de 1753," but other sources do not confirm that.
April 1754 - Made chevalier of order of Saint-Louis. 1758-64 - Served in 1758 siege at Louisbourg, then returned to France. In 1763 he was the commandant at Rochefort for the troops from Cayenne. Retired from military service on 1 May 1764 with 1,200 livres pension.
February 1765 - Died at Rochefort on 22 February, after 49 years of service.
Probably Jean-François Eurry de la Pérelle (1719-46)
The exact identity of this junior officer is not known for certain. According to the parish record file the major de la place, Jean-François Eurry de la Pérelle, had five sons living in Louisbourg in 1745 whose ages ranged from 13 to 26. One was enseigne en second in Dailleboust's company while another who was at the rank of enseigne en pied, acted as garçon-major during the siege. Neither individual can be identified with absolute certainty, but it seems likely that the more senior enseigne was de la Pérelle's oldest son, Jean-François Eurry de la Pérelle (born in 1719). The enseigne en second may have been Charles-Josué Eurry de la Pérelle (although Fauteux states that he did not become an enseigne until 1747). These appear to be the only sons of de la Pérelle père who pursued a military career (or rather the only ones for which I have been able to find evidence) and the career of the latter, as given by Fauteux, makes him a likely candidate to have been "Eurry de la Pérelle" listed as enseigne en second in Dailleboust's company. Almost by default it appears that the older de la Pérelle, Jean-François, was at a higher rank and therefore the one who acted as a garçon-major.
1719 - Jean-François born in Louisbourg, son of Jean-François Eurry de la Pérelle and Françoise-Charlotte Aubert de la Chesnaye.
August 1737 - Listed in an entry in the parish records as an "enseigne." This is the first reference to him in military service although he probably had been a cadet during his earlier years.
October 1738 - Listed as enseigne en second in one of the compagnies franches, the one of which his father was capitaine.
1740-43 - There are two references in the parish records to him which describe him simply as "enseigne de compagnie" without indicating which rank of enseigne.
1745 - Probably was the de la Pérelle who acted as garçon-major during the siege.
1746 - Died in this year according to one source.
Compagnie de Canoniers-Bombardiers
Ca. 1710 - Born at Plaisance, son of a French-born officer in the garrison there, Jean-Joseph d'Allard de Sainte-Marie and Marie Anne de Tour de Sourdeval.
January 1714 - Father comes to Louisbourg as company captain, accompanied by wife and young Philippe-Joseph.
May 1728 - King approved that Philippe-Joseph d'Allard de Sainte-Marie be awarded the next enseigne en second position that should become vacant in a Louisbourg company.
March 1730 - Sainte-Marie referred to as a cadet in letter from king instructing governor to make Sainte-Marie enseigne en second, filling vacancy created when Catalogne promoted to enseigne en pied. Jean-Joseph d'Allard de Sainte-Marie died 25 March 1730.
May 1730 - One source states that Sainte-Marie became enseigne en pied on 6 May 1730.
June 1732 - Letter from king still referring to Sainte-Marie as cadet requesting governor to make him enseigne en pied.
March-April 1739 - Married Jeanne Françoise Jacau, one of the daughters of Thomas Jacau, a maitre canonier in Louisbourg. Three weeks after his marriage Sainte-Marie was promoted to lieutenant.
November 1739 - Governor de Forant chose Sainte-Marie to lead the separate unit of artillerymen being set up at Louisbourg, subject to approval of the project being given by the Minister of Marine. For the next three years Sainte-Marie busied himself with organizing and directing the activities of the artillery group. In recognition of the fact that so much of SainteMarie's time was taken up by the gunnery school and other organizational problems, the Crown awarded him a gratuity of 300 livres to offset the income lost by his not being able to operate a canteen like most of the other officers.
May 1743 - Five months after the canoniers-bombardiers were officially established at Louisbourg, Sainte-Marie was promoted to captain of the new company on 1 May.
1745 - Sainte-Marie and the canoniers-bombardiers served in the siege. Sainte-Marie's house on Rochefort Point was burned during the siege.
1749 - Returned to Isle Royale as captain of the first artillery company.
March 1749 - Awarded the cross of the order of Saint-Louis on 1 March.
January 1751 - His first wife having died, he remarried at Louisbourg Angelique Carrerot, daughter of Philippe Carrerot and Thérèse Gaulthier, on 31 January. They were to have six children between November 1751 and September 1757.
1758 - Sainte-Marie and his artillery company served in the second siege.
1762 - After the fall of Louisbourg he was sent out to Saint-Dominique.
1765 - Sainte-Marie was promoted to lieutenant-colonel d'artillerie and retired shortly thereafter with a pension of 1,800 livres.
1778 - Died at Charente, France.
1711 - Born at Paris, son of François-Madeleine Vallée and Laurence Casselle. His father was trained in the engineering sciences, including surveying and hydrography.
1723 - François Vallée , his wife and Louis-Félix came out to Isle Royale after Vallée pére was exiled from France as partial punishment for misdemeanors committed in France. François Vallée's crimes in France did not prevent Louis-Félix from entering into military service at Louisbourg at the age of 13 "par Ordre du ministre de la marine." None of the sources give Vallée's rank upon entry into the service; he is simply described as a volontaire.
1735-39 - Louis Vallée travelled to Rochefort where he began serving as a volontaire in "la Compagnie des Bombardiers." He spent five years at Rochefort being instructed in the art of artillery. One can only speculate that Vallée was selected in Louisbourg for this training because of skills he possessed in mathematics and other sciences related to artillery which he had learned from his father.
1739 - Vallée returned to Louisbourg to, as he put it, "Instruire un détachément de Cannoniers Bombardiers." This was the year in which serious efforts began to establish a separate artillery unit at Louisbourg and it is very likely that Vallée was sent back to Isle Royale to assist Philippe-Joseph d'Allard de Sainte-Marie in planning for and organizing the new company of canoniers-bombardiers.
1741 - Married Marie-Josephe Le Large on 8 June.
1742 - Referred to as a maitre canonier in one source. In his own recounting of his career he claimed that he was made lieutenant of the artillery company during 1742. This must have been an unofficial promotion for the official listing of promotion dates for the lieutenants at Isle Royale makes no mention of any promotions or appointments awarded to Vallée before 1743.
1743 - Vallée was referred to as a lieutenant d'artillerie on the birth register. On 1 May he was formally promoted to lieutenant of the company of canoniers-bombardiers.
1744 - Participated in an attempt to capture Annapolis Royal. Under Captain Bonnaventure he commanded a detachment of canoniers "avec les munitions de guerre."
1745 - Served in the siege along with the rest of company.
1746-48 - In France, Vallée and a detachment of canoniers-bombardiers from Isle Royale worked to re-establish batteries along the Charente River, just south of Rochefort. In 1747 he was captured by the English during a naval combat.
1749 - Returned to Isle Royale as a lieutenant.
1752 - Vallée and a detachment of ca noniers-bombardiers worked at constructing roads on Isle Royale to improve communication between settlements.
1754 - Promoted to capitaine on 1 April. Made a tour of the island for the governor and commissaire-ordonnateur to report on grain production.
1758 - Served in siege; during the initial stages Vallée and his company were sent to command batteries which had been constructed on Gabarus Bay.
February 1760 - Made a chevalier of the order of Saint-Louis on 8 February.
1762 - Like Philippe-Joseph d'Allard de Sainte-Marie, Louis Vallée was sent out to Saint-Dominique towards the end of the Seven Years' War. He spent 18 months in the garrison there.
1763 - Posted to Cayenne in French Guiana where he was named captain of the first company of canoniers-bombardiers there.
1768 - Still at Cayenne, Vallée was awarded a commission to become a major in 1771. Perhaps in 1771, but definitely at some date after 1768, he became major de la place at Cayenne.
1775 - Vallée's dossier personnel was drawn up in 1775 in which it was stated that he was currently in his fifty-second year of service without interruption. The author of the dossier judged that Vallée "a donné en diverses occasions des marques de son Zéle et son intelligence, qu'il a rempli les fonctions dela majorité avec beaucoup d'exactitude Et qu'il est très susceptible des graces du Roy."
Karrer Regiment
1723 - In August "Schonherr le jeune" was serving as an enseigne in the Colonel's Company of the Karrer Regiment at Rochefort. Later that year he was promoted to premier sous lieutenant of the Second Company in which his older brother was serving as lieutenant en second. The Second Company was posted to Martinique but it does not appear that the younger Schonherr ever went out to the island.
1724 - In a review of the Karrer Regiment drawn up in July, Schonherr was listed as still in Rochefort and on a 6-month congé which commenced in May of that year.
1726-30 - Back with Colonel's Company at Rochefort as sous lieutenant.
1731-41 - Referred to as a lieutenant for the first time in review drawn up in October 1731. Remained with Colonel's Company at Rochefort until sent out to Isle Royale.
1741 - Embarked for Louisbourg in June taking 50 soldiers with him to bring the size of the detachment in the garrison to 150.
1742-45 - Promoted to capitaine lieutenant on 24 January 1742, three weeks after his predecessor Cailly was retired from the service. Remained at Louisbourg until after the capitulation of the fortress, at which time he returned to Rochefort and rejoined the Colonel's Company there. In April 1745 Schonherr was granted permission by Maurepas to return to France because of his bad health. He was unable to go as the fortress was besieged before the permission arrived at Louisbourg. During the siege Schonherr was attached to his Karrer troops posted along the loopholed wall between the Princess Demi-Bastion and the Brouillan Bastion.
Religion - Gabriel Schonherr seems to have been a Roman Catholic as he acted as a godfather to a soldier in the Karrer Regiment who converted from Calvinism in March 1745.
1734 - Rasser's name first appears on a December 1734 list of Karrer officers at Louisbourg where he is described as an enseigne surnumeraire.
1736-37 - In France on congé from late 1736 to June 1737 when he embarked for Isle Royale.
1738 - Late in the year Rasser was made enseigne en pied.
1740-41 - In France on congé from late 1740 to June 1741 when he embarked for Louisbourg.
1744 - Played a prominent role in attempting to quell the December mutiny.
1745 - Served in the siege along the loopholed wall with the other Karrer troops.
Religion - Jean François Rasser apparently was a Roman Catholic as on two occasions he acted as a godfather in a baptismal ceremony; first in a 1738 conversion of a soldier in the Karrer Regiment and second in a 1741 baptism of a son of Michel de Gannes, captain of one of the compagnies-franches.
1736-41 - Listed as an enseigne surnumeraire in Colonel's Company of Karrer Regiment at Rochefort.
1741-42 - Made enseigne en pied, probably in. late 1741; described as such in January 1742 review of Karrer Regiment. Still in Rochefort.
1743-45 - Embarked for Isle Royale in July 1743. Served in garrison at Louisbourg until after capitulation of fortress when he returned to Rochefort with the other Karrer officers. During the siege he was posted along the loopholed wall between the Brouillan Bastion and the Princess Demi-Bastion.
Religion - Like the other three Karrer officers in Louisbourg in 1744 enseigne Dahuty appears to have been a Roman Catholic. In April 1745 he acted as godfather to a soldier in the detachment who converted from Calvinism.
1725 - Born at Louisbourg on 1 December, son of Charles-Léopold Eberhard de l'Espérance, a lieutenant in the Karrer Regiment, and Marguerite Dangeac. His mother's two brothers, Gabriel François Dangeac and Michel de Merville Dangeac, were both serving as officers in the compagnies franches by the time de l'Espérance fils was promoted to enseigne surnuméraire in the Karrer detachment.
1735-42 - Cadet in detachment of Karrer Regiment.
1738 - De l'Espérance pére died at Louisbourg in November.
1742 - Named enseigne surnuméraire of detachment at Louisbourg.
1745 - Returned to Rochefort and Colonel's Company of Karrer troops after capitulation of the fortress. During the siege he served with the rest of the regiment along the loopholed wall between the Brouillan Bastion and the Princess Demi-Bastion.
1748 - Promoted to enseigne en pied in Karrer Regiment at Saint-Dominique.
1753 - De l'Espérance requested permission from the Minister of Marine to go to Isle Royale where his mother was living.
1754 - Came out to Isle Royale as a lieutenant in a French company.
1758 - Presumably participated in defence of Louisbourg during siege.
1763 - Promoted to capitaine d'infanterie on 1 January; serving at the time on the French islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. His uncle, Gabriel François Dangeac was governor of the colony.
1768 - Made commandant of Miquelon on 1 August.
1770-73 - Admitted as chevalier in order of Saint-Louis on 1 July 1770; succeeded his uncle as governor of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon in 1773.
1775 - Brevet to promote him to colonel issued on 4 April.
1778-79 - Returned to France after English burned Saint-Pierre. Upon arrival in France the king awarded him "Le grade de Brigadier et un traitement de 4000#."
1783 - Received orders to return to Saint-Pierre and Miquelon to become governor again.
1784 - Promoted to "brigadier d'infanterie."
1785 - Returned to France. `
1788 - Made maréchal de camp.
1791 - Died 5 January leaving behind an invalid wife and three children.
Religion - Was baptised a Roman Catholic in 1725; after his father's conversion in 1731 both parents were Catholic.
Compagnies Franches de la Marine
(i) Compagnie de Rousseau de Souvigny/Chassin de Thierry:
Born in France, probably at Blois, son of Gabriel Rousseau, sieur de la Gorre et de Villejoin, and Marie Baudron. June 1706 - Was serving as an enseigne in the garrison at Plaisance.
1714 - Passed from Plaisance to new French colony of Isle Royale. Promoted to lieutenant in May; married Jeanne de Saint-Etienne de la Tour, widow of Jacques Pontif, during the year.
March 1730 - Promoted to capitaine of one of the compagnies franches.
August 1732 - Rousseau's wife died.
April 1736 - Made chevalier of order of Saint-Louis.
April 1744 - Retired with pension of 1,200 livres; returned to France later in the year. Year of his death is not known.
Born at Versailles, France, son of Nicolas de Chassin, billeting officer for the king's household, and Charlotte Thierry.
1717-18 - Came to New France for the first time in 1717 as a cadet. Returned to France the following year.
1719-26 - Posted to Louisiana as a sous-lieutenant in 1719. After suffering from a serious illness in 1725 he returned to France in 1726.
1730 - Posted to Isle Royale where he served as an enseigne en pied.
1732 - Governor Saint-Ovide "charged him with supervising the annual assembly of the Indians of Nova Scotia and Ile Royalle," a duty which he carried out to the governor's satisfaction.
December 1734 - Married Marie-Joseph, one of the daughters of Pierre-Rousseau de Souvigny and the late Jeanne de Saint-Etienne de la Tour. Six children were born to Chassin de Thierry and his wife.
1737 - Promoted to lieutenant in his father-in-law's company.
April 1744 - On the recommendation of Governor Duquesnel, Chassin de Thierry was promoted to capitaine of the company previously commanded by Pierre Rousseau de Souvigny.
1745 - During the early stages of the siege Chassin de Thierry and his company were posted to the Royal Battery. When it was abandoned in mid-May the company was assigned to the Dauphin Demi-Bastion, where it remained until the fortress capitulated in late June.
1746-49 --Presumably in France.
1749 - Returned to Louisbourg, still at rank of capitaine.
April 1754 - Made chevalier of order of Saint-Louis.
October 1755 - Died at Louisbourg. Widow was awarded a pension of 200 livres to help raise their six children.
(See the section immediately above for his biographical summary)
March 1712 - Born in France at Sérignac in the province of Saintonge on 22 March 1712. His parents were Louis du Pont du Chambon, lieutenant de roi at Louisbourg in 1744, and Jeanne Mius d'Entremont.
May 1730 - Made enseigne en second in one of the companies on Isle Royale on 8 May.
April 1737 - Promoted to enseigne en pied on 1 April.
1744-45 - Promoted to lieutenant on 1 April 1744. Returned to France after events of 1745.
1749 - Promoted to capitaine on 1 May 1749; returned to Louisbourg that year.
October 1750 - Married at Louisbourg on 12 October, Marie-Josephe d'Entremont, widow of Jean-Baptiste de Couagne. She was a first cousin of François du Pont du Chambon and a special dispensation was given to permit them to marry.
April 1755 - Admitted into order of Saint-Louis on 1 April.
1758 - Returned to France after the capitulation of the fortress.
1764-65 - Retired on 1 May 1764 and died in Saintonge during 1765.
(See the section above on the garçons-majors of the staff officers where a summary of this officer's career is given).
Neither the date nor location of Pierre-Jacques Ange Rousseau de Souvigny's birth is known. In the 1734 census he is described as being under 15 years of age and in Canada. His father was Pierre Rousseau de Souvigny (the captain who retired in April, 1744) and his mother Jeanne St. Etienne de la Tour (who died in 1732).
Little is known about Pierre-Jacques Ange's military career. By 1738 he was listed as an enseigne en second in his father's company. He was still at that rank in 1745 when he died during the siege of Louisbourg.
He does not appear to have been married.
(ii) Compagnie de Dailleboust
December 1688 - Born in Montréal, eldest son of Pierre Dailleboust d'Argenteuil and Marie-Louise Denys de La Ronde. Sometime during his youth he became a cadet in the compagnies franches in Acadia. Winter 1708-09 - As a cadet accompanied his father on an expedition led by Saint-Ovide against the English forts at St. John's, Newfoundland.
1710-11 - Commissioned as an enseigne in July; present at the French surrender of Port Royal to Francis Nicholson. Passed to Rochefort after capitulation of Acadian capital. Returned to the colonies in the fall of 1711, arriving at Québec in October.
1714 - Transferred to Isle Royale.
July 1720 - Promoted to lieutenant on 2 July.
January 1729 - Married Marie-Josephe Bertrand, widow of Gabriel Rousseau de Villejouin on 16 January, thereby becoming the step-father to two men who would be officers in the garrison at Louisbourg in the 1740s, Gabriel Rousseau de Villejouin fils and Michel Rousseau d'Orfontaine. Dailleboust's marriage to Marie-Josephe Bertrand produced three children.
May 1730 - Named capitaine of his own company on 8 May.
Spring 1733 - Dailleboust and his wife subdivided their property on Block 16, sold both lots and apparently moved to Block 14.
1745 - During the siege Dailleboust and his company were initially posted to the Island Battery, commanding the entrance to the harbour. In mid-June Dailleboust replaced capitaine Michel de Gannes de Falaise at the Pièce de la Grave Battery while the latter officer took command of the island fortification. When the fortress capitulated Dailleboust handed over the act of surrender to Admiral Peter Warren. Dailleboust left Louisbourg in 1745 on one of the last ships for Rochefort. In mid-September he was awarded the cross of the order of Saint-Louis for the services he had rendered during the siege. Marie-Josephe Bertrand, Dailleboust's wife, died sometime between 1745 and 1749.
May 1747 - Captured by the English during a naval engagement off the coast of France. Taken to England as a prisoner but returned to France later in the year.
1749-54 - Returned to Louisbourg in July 1749 as lieutenant de roi; subsequently acted as commandant an several occasions when the governor was absent. In April 1754 he was appointed lieutenant de roi at Trois-Rivières.
1755-60 - Left Louisbourg in 1755 to take his appointment at Trois-Rivières. The following year he was appointed lieutenant de roi at Montréal, where he stayed until the city capitulated in September 1760. While at Montréal, Dailleboust remarried at the age of 70. His second wife was Françoise-Charlotte Alavoine, whom he married in January 1758 and who subsequently gave birth to two sons.
October 1761 - Dailleboust died in France on 13 October.
The year of de Coux's birth is not known. He was born in France, the son of Paul de Coux and Anne de Griniac, probably at Duhaute in the parish of Ségur, archbishopric of Limoges.
May 1730 - Named enseigne en pied on 8 May.
1732-36 - Posted to Isle Saint-Jean for three years, then returned to Isle Royale in 1736.
1737-45 - Promoted to lieutenant on 1 April. According to his dossier personnel he returned to Isle Saint-Jean in 1737 and remained there until 1745. On 13 January 1739 he married Anne du Pont du Chambon, a daughter of the lieutenant de roi on the island. With lieutenant de roi du Chambon's departure for Louisbourg in 1744 de Coux became the senior officer in the small garrison.
1745 - Returned to Louisbourg where he served in the siege. During the fighting he was temporarily assigned to Chassin de Thierry's company serving at the Dauphin Demi-Bastion. He was injured in that location and taken to a hospital set up in the casemates. After recuperating he rejoined Dailleboust's company. Following the capitulation of the fortress he was deported along with the others to France.
1747-48 - Returned to Canada in 1747; in 1748 detached to Isle Royale to make preparations for return of French.
March 1749 - Promoted to captain on 1 March.
1751 - Married Marguerite-Henriette, a daughter of the late Charles-Léopold Eberhard de l'Esperance and Marguerite Dangeac. She died in 1758 at Louisbourg.
1753-57 - Commandant at Port Dauphin. He was awarded the cross of Saint-Louis on 1 April 1755.
1758-60 - Served in second siege and taken to England. Following an exchange in 1759 de Coux passed to France. In 1760 de Coux was one of the officers on an expedition to Canada. His ship ran into bad weather and never completed the voyage. Returned to France.
1764-65 - Retired with a 600 livres pension in 1764 due to "son Grand age et Sa Mauvaise santé." He died in 1765.
This position was not likely vacant but the individual occupying that rank in the Dailleboust company was either serving outside of Louisbourg in 1744-45 or serving in the capital in some other capacity.
Perhaps Charles-Josué Eurry de la Pérelle (1723-79) See the discussion above in the section on de la Pérelle fils, garçon major, for an explanatory note on the difficulties involved in precisely identifying the de la Pérelle children. The summary here is based on the work of Aegidius Fauteux who stated that this officer was not made enseigne en second until 1747. If so, the Eurry de la Pérelle described in the siege accounts must have been another child of the major de la place.
1723 - Born at Louisbourg, the son of Jean-François Eurry de la Pérelle and Charlotte Aubert de la Chesnaye.
1737 - Became a cadet.
1747-48 - Named enseigne en second on 1 January 1747; enseigne en pied on 15 February 1748.
1750 - Promoted to lieutenant on 15 April.
1759 - Appointed capitaine on 1 January.
1764 - Serving in Guyana. Around this time he married for the first time.
1776 - Named as a chevalier of order of Saint-Louis. ca. 1779 - Died.
(iii) Compagnie de de Gannes
May 1702 - Born at Port Royal, son of Louis de Gannes de Falaise and Marguerite Le Neuf de la Vallière.
May 1719 - Appointed as an enseigne in Canada.
May 1725 - At Isle Royale promoted to lieutenant on 29 May.
1730 - Named as captain of his own company on 8 May; married Elisabeth Catalogne on 21 November.
1745-46 - Participated in the siege, first at Pièce de la Grave Battery and then at the Island Battery. Returned to France following the capitulation and in September 1746 was awarded the cross of Saint-Louis.
1749 - Returned to Louisbourg and was named major de la place on 1 May.
1752 - Appointed lieutenant de roi at Trois-Rivières on 1 April but was unable to take up the post, dying in Louisbourg on 23 October. He was buried beneath the chapel of the King's Bastion Barracks.
ca. 1703 - Born in France at Aignan, archbishopric of Auch. Son of Pierre d'Espiet de Pensens and Marie Lusarey.
May 1727 - Made enseigne en second on 16 May.
May 1730 - Promoted to enseigne en pied on 8 May.
March 1736 - Named lieutenant on 20 March.
1745 - Served in siege with rest of de Gannes' company; returned to France after the capitulation of the fortress.
January 1747 - Promoted to captain of his own company on 1 January.
April 1754 - Retired from military service on 1 April. Awarded a pension of 400 livres. Made a chevalier of order of Saint-Louis the day of his retirement.
The date of Jean d'Espiet de Pensens' death is not known.
Very little is known about this junior officer other than that he arrived in Isle Royale sometime during the 1730s. He served first as an enseigne en second in du Vivier's company before being promoted, sometime after 1738. Neither Bellemont's parents, date or place of birth nor the year in which he died are known. During the first siege he served with the rest of the de Gannes company, first at the Pièce de la Grave Battery and then at the Island Battery. Nothing is known about his military career after 1745.
This officer is discussed below in the section on the Rousseau de Villejouin company, the company of which he was made enseigne en pied in April 1744.
The date of Saint-Aigne's birth is not known but he was born in la Bastide d'Armagnac in the diocese of Aire, Gascogne, France. His parents were François Came, sieur de Saint-Aigne, and Marie-Anne Grenier de Caumale.
1737 - Cadet in the Louisbourg garrison.
April 1744 - Appointed enseigne en second in de Gannes' company.
1745 - Served in the siege with the rest of the company. Deported to France with all the other French residents of Isle Royale following the capitulation.
January-March 1747 - Made enseigne en pied on 1 January according to one source, on 1 March according to another source.
January 1749 - Married Madelaine-Louise Aubert de la Chesnaye at Québec on 13 January.
April 1750 - Named lieutenant on 15 April.
June 1752 - His first wife having died, Saint-Aigne remarried at Louisbourg on 18 June, Louise Charlotte, daughter of Jean-Chrysostome Loppinot and Madeleine Boitier.
May 1757 - Promoted to capitaine on 1 May.
1758-60 - Presumably served in second siege and then returned to France. Made chevalier of order of Saint-Louis on 8 February 1760.
The dates of Saint-Aigne's retirement from military service and death are not known.
(iv) Compagnie de Duvivier
April 1705 - Born at Port Royal on 25 April, son of François du Pont Duvivier and Marie Mius d'Entremont.
August 1718 - Serving as garde-marine at Rochefort.
July 1719 - Appointed enseigne at Isle Royale on 11 July.
May 1730 - Promoted to lieutenant on 25 May.
June 1732 - Made aide-major with the rank of capitaine on 16 June.
April 1737 - Named capitaine of his own company on 1 April.
1744-45 - In 1744 he commanded the successful attack on Canso and then served as one of the leaders in the unsuccessful expedition against Annapolis Royal. In 1745 he was in France on a congé and hence did not serve in the siege. Made a chevalier of the order of Saint-Louis on 17 May 1745.
1747 - Retired from military service.
April 1750 - Rejoined the military and was named lieutenant de roi of Isle Saint-Jean on 1 April. Appears to have remained in France and never gone out to the colony.
July 1753 - Retired from service for the second and final time on 20 July with a pension of 1,200 livres.
There is no indication that Duvivier ever married. The date of his death is not known.
1713 - Born at Plaisance, son of Michel Le Neuf de la Vallière and Renée Bertrand.
1725 - Accepted as a cadet.
March 1730 - Made enseigne en second on 25 March, detached to Port Toulouze.
March 1736 - Promoted to enseigne en pied on 20 March, detached to Port Toulouze.
September 1739 - Married at Louisbourg on 20 September, Marie-Charlotte, daughter of Pierre Rousseau de Souvigny and Jeanne de Saint-Etienne de la Tour.
May 1743 - Promoted to lieutenant in Duvivier's company on 1 May. Because of absence of Duvivier he had acted as the commandant of the company since 1737.
1744 - Involved in expedition to Canso and Annapolis Royal.
1745-49 - As Duvivier was absent in France during 1745, de la Vallière was in charge of the company during the siege. The company was posted at the Maurepas Bastion throughout the siege. When the fortress capitulated he was sent back to France.
1747-48 - Came out to Canada.
1749-50 - Received orders in Québec to go to Isle Royale for retaking of colony by the French. On 15 April 1750 he was promoted captain of his own company.
1750-57 - Posted to Isle Royale. Made chevalier of order of Saint-Louis on 16 May 1756.
1758 - Served in second siege, during which he was injured. Detained in England for seven months and then transported to Rochefort.
April 1760 - Sent from France to lend assistance to Canada. Involved in the Battle of the Restigouche, from which he escaped carrying packets from the French generals in Canada to the Minister.
1764-65 - Named major commanding the troops at Cayenne on 1 May 1764; promoted to lieutenant de roi in 1765.
1773 - Received a brevet for lieutenant-colonel on 6 June.
1785 - Awarded a pension of 4,000 livres.
1787 - Appears to have died during the year.
September 1713 - Born on 20 September at Sérignac in Saintonge, France, the son of Louis du Pont du Chambon and Jeanne Mius d'Entremont.
April 1737 - Made enseigne en second on 1 April.
May 1743 - Promoted to enseigne en pied on 1 May.
1744-45 - Participated in 1744 raid on Canso. During the siege of 1745 he served at the Demi-Bastion Dauphin and Pièce de la Grave Battery; was injured twice during the conflict. Returned to France after the fortress capitulated.
March 1749 - Named lieutenant on 1 March.
April 1750-51 - Promoted to capitaine of his own company on 1 April. With the assistance of the intendant of Canada, François Bigot, Vergor obtained a transfer to Québec in 1751, where he continued as a captain.
May-July 1752 - Made chevalier of order of Saint-Louis on 15 May; married Marie Josephte Riverin at Québec on 8 July.
1754-55 - At Versailles he received orders to tike command of Fort Beauséjour. Was the commander at the fort in 1755 when it was besieged and captured by the English. Passed to Canada where he continued active military service. .
1757-59 - In 1757 and 1758 he carried out assignments in Canada contributing to the defence of the colony. In 1759 he was in charge of the detachment guarding Anse au Foulon at Québec, the location where the English landed and climbed to the Plains of Abraham. After the fall of Québec he returned to France. Appears to have retired from military service in 1759.
1761-75 - Living in Anjou in 1761; in 1775 he was in Saintonge, the province of his birth.
ca. 1715 - Born on Isle Royale, probably at Louisbourg, ca. 1715; son of Gabriel Rousseau de Villejouin and Marie-Josephte Bertrand.
1732 - Serving as a cadet on Isle Royale; attached to several detachments pursuing deserters.
April 1739 - Made enseigne en second on 1 April.
1744-45 - Participated in the 1744 'expedition against Annapolis Royal; during the 1745 siege he served with the rest of Duvivier's company at the Maurepas Bastion. Following the capitulation of the fortress he was deported to France.
1747-48 - Commissioned as an enseigne en pied on 1 January. Later that year he embarked with the de la Jonquière expedition destined for Canada. Captured and imprisoned in England for six months. When released he returned to Rochefort where he worked at recruiting soldiers for Canada.
March 1749 - Promoted to lieutenant on 1 March and ordered to go to Louisbourg.
1750-58 - Named capitaine of his own company on 15 April 1750. Detached to Isle Saint-Jean where he remained until 1756 when given permission to return to France to recuperate from his illnesses. While en route from Louisbourg he was captured in July 1756 by an English ship and sent to England where he stayed for the next nine months. In 1757 he was released and while returning to Isle Royale was captured for the second time, this time being detained for seven months. During 1758 he was released and went to France rather than Isle Royale due to his poor health.
February 1760 - Made a chevalier of order of Saint-Louis on 8 February.
1761 - Given a recruiting assignment at Rochefort.
1768 - Retired due to illness; accorded pension of 800 livres.
1787 - Died in France.
(v) Compagnie de Bonnaventure
June 1701 - Born at La Rochelle on 22 June, son of Simon-Pierre Denys de Bonnaventure and Jeanne Jannière.
1717 - Came out to Isle Royale as a cadet.
July 1720 - Named as enseigne en second on 2 July; posted to Isle Saint-Jean until 1724 when he returned to Isle Royale.
May 1730 - Commissioned lieutenant on 25 May.
April 1737 - Appointed aide-major with rank of capitaine on l April.
April 1738 - Named as capitaine of his own company.
1744-45 - Commanded a sea force in the 1744 expedition against Annapolis Royal; in 1745 he and his company were stationed from the Maurepas Bastion to the Brouillan Bastion. Returned to France following the capitulation of the fortress.
1747-49 - Married his cousin, Louise Denys de la Ronde at Québec on 25 November 1747. On 7 February 1748 he was appointed acting major of the Isle Royale companies in Canada. He was made a chevalier of the order of Saint-Louis on 22 February. In 1749 Bonnaventure and his wife moved to Louisbourg.
1749-54 - Detached to Isle Saint-Jean, first as acting major and commandant and then from 1 April 1751 full major commanding on the island.
1754-58 - Named lieutenant de roi at Louisbourg on 1 April 1754. Remained in this position until the capitulation of the fortress in 1758. Returned to France in poor health.
May 1760 - Died at Rochefort.
January 1709 - Born at Plaisance on 20 January, son of Gabriel Dangeac and Marguerite Bertrand.
May 1723 - Named enseigne en second on 1 May.
May 1730 - Appointed enseigne en pied on 8 May.
June 1732 - Promoted to lieutenant on 16 June.
December 1735 - Married Geneviève La Fèrre on 31 December.
1738-41 - Served as officer commanding the detachment at Port Dauphin; his family lived with him there.
1744-45 - Returned in the spring of 1744 to be commandant at Port Dauphin; brought back to Louisbourg in 1745 to serve in the siege along with the other officers and men of Bonnaventure's company in the vicinity of the Brouillan and Maurepas Bastions. Deported to France after the capitulation of the fortress.
January 1747 - Named capitaine of his own company on 1 January; served in Canada before returning to Isle Royale.
1751-56 - In Port Dauphin area with his company performing work on roads and other duties. On 24 March 1754 he was awarded the cross of the order of Saint-Louis.
1758-60 - Presumably served in the second siege of Louisbourg. In 1760 he was in command of the losing French forces at the Battle of the Restigouche, after which he returned to France.
1763-73 - Named governor of remaining French possessions in North America, the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, on 23 February 1763. He held that appointment until his retirement in 1773 when his nephew, the Baron de l'Espérance, succeeded him.
1780-82 - Became brigadier d'infanterie in 1780 and died in France on g March 1782.
There is very little information on this officer other than his promotion dates for the period 1732-50. He is thought to have been the son of Michel du Pont de Renon, an officer in the compagnies-franches de la marine in Acadia and then Isle Royale, and Anne Desgoutins.
June 1732 - Named enseigne en second on 16 June.
April 1741 - Promoted to enseigne en pied in April 1741.
1744-45 - Participated in the expedition against Annapolis Royal in 1744; during the 1745 siege he served with the other officers and men of Bonnaventure's company in the vicinity of the Brouillan and Maurepas Bastions.
January 1747 - Commissioned as a lieutenant on 1 January.
April 1750 - Made a capitaine of his own company..
There is very little information on this officer other than his promotion dates for the period 1743-50. ca. 1712 - Born; location not known. May 1743 - Appointed enseigne en second on 1 May. 1744-45 - Participated in the expedition against Annapolis Royal in 1744; during the 1745 siege he served with the other officers and men of Bonnaventure's company in the vicinity of the Brouillan and Maurepas Bastions. April 1750 - Promoted to lieutenant at Isle Royale.
(vi) Compagnie de d'Espiet de la Plagne
The date of this officer's birth is not known. He was a native of Aignan, archbishopric of Auch, a son of Pierre d'Espiet de Pensens and Marie Lusarey. Two brothers of Pierre-Paul served as officers in the Isle Royale garrison, one of whom, Jean d'Espiet de Pensens, was a lieutenant in the de Gannes company in 1744.
1723 - Appointed enseigne at Isle Royale, presumably enseigne en pied.
May 1730 - Promoted to lieutenant.
April 1737 - Named capitaine of his own company.
April 1739 - Married Marie Charlotte de Lort, daughter of Guillaume de Lort and Charlotte Gauthier, on 23 April.
1745 - D'Espiet and his company served in the siege from the Princess Demi-Bastion to the Porte de la Reine. Deported to France following the capitulation.
1747 - Awarded the cross of, Saint-Louis; retired from military service.
April 1710 - Born at Port Royal on 2 April, son of François du Pont du Vivier and Marie Mius d'Entremont. He had two brothers in the Isle Royale garrison of 1744, an uncle and four cousins.
March 1730 - Appointed enseigne en second on 26 March.
March 1736 - Named enseigne en pied on 20 March.
September 1737 - Married Marie-Josephte Gauthier, daughter of Nicolas Gauthier and Marie-Allain. Wedding at Louisbourg on 15 September.
June 1742 - Promoted to lieutenant on 1 June.
1745 - During the siege he served with the other officers and men of d'Espiet's company at the Princess Demi-Bastion and from there along to the Porte de la Reine. Following the capitulation of the fortress he was deported to France.
1749-50 - Presumably returned to Isle Royale in 1749. On 15 April 1750 he was promoted to capitaine in charge of his own company.
1758 - Returned to France following the siege.
February 1760 - Made chevalier of order of Saint-Louis on 8 February.
1764-65 - Retired from military service on 1 May 1764; died in 1765.
This position was not vacant but the individual occupying that rank was either serving outside of Louisbourg in 1745, and hence was not mentioned in the accounts of the siege, or was serving in some other capacity. The individual who was most likely the enseigne en pied in this company was Joseph du Pont du Vivier, a brother of the officer above. In 1738 du Vivier held that rank in d'Espiet's company and there is no record of his being transferred to another company between 1738 and 1745. The reason he was not mentioned in accounts of the company's performance during the siege is that he was not in Louisbourg. but detached to Isle Saint-Jean. The following biographical sketch is provided on the assumption that Joseph du Pont du Vivier was enseigne en pied in d'Espiet's company in 1744.
November 1707 - Born in Acadia on 12 November, a son of François du Pont du Vivier and Marie Mius d'Entremont. In 1744 he had two brothers serving as officers in the Isle Royale garrison.
June 1732 - Appointed enseigne en second on 1 June.
April 1738 - Named enseigne en pied on 1 April.
1745 - Appears to have been the only officer left on Isle Saint-Jean in 1745.
January 1747 - Commissioned lieutenant on 1 January.
1749-50 - Returned to Isle Royale when the colony was restored to France. Promoted capitaine of his own company on 15 April 1750. Later that year, 24 October, he married Marie-Josephte Le Borgne de Belle-Isle, widow of Jacques-Philippe-Urbain Rondeau.
1760 - Made chevalier of order of Saint-Louis on 8 February. Died during the year
October 1720 - Born at Louisbourg on 8 October, son of Louis du Pont du Chambon and Jeanne Mius d'Entremont. He was a cousin of the two officers immediately above.
May 1743 - Appointed enseigne en second on 1 May.
1745 - Served in the siege in Louisbourg along the fortifications from the Princess Demi-Bastion to the Porte de la Reine. Deported to France after the fortress capitulated.
January 1747 - Made enseigne en pied on 1 January.
April 1750 - Promoted to lieutenant in April 1750.
February 1756 - Named capitaine of his own company on 15 February.
1758-69 - Presumably served in the second siege of Louisbourg, after which he returned to France. Married Marie-Geneviève Hertel de Beaulac, the widow of a fellow officer, Michel Merville Dangeac, on 18 December 1760. Served at Saint-Dominique as a capitaine until he retired in 1769.
July 1770 - Made chevalier of order of Saint-Louis.
(vii) Compagnie de Duhaget
ca. 1702-03 - Born in parish of Estang, bishopric of Aire in Gascogne, son of Charles Tarride Duhaget and Antoinette de Saint-Chéran.
May 1723 - Appointed enseigne en second on Isle Royale on 1 May.
May 1728 - Made enseigne en pied on 10 May. Posted to Isle Saint-Jean.
May 1730 - Promoted to lieutenant on 8 May. Served at Louisbourg from 1731 to 1736 when he returned to Isle Saint-Jean as interim commander.
September 1737 - Married in Louisbourg, Marguerite Rousseau de Villejouin, daughter of Gabriel Rousseau de Villejouin (an officer) and Marie-Josephte Bertrand. Began construction in 1737 of a house on property he owned in Block 17 at Louisbourg.
April 1738 - Became aide-major with rank of captain.
April 1739 - Made a capitaine with his own company.
1745 - Duhaget and his company served in the siege in the Bastion de la Reine and from there along the curtain wall to the Porte de la Reine. Deported to France following the capitulation of the fortress.
1748-49 - Admitted as a chevalier of the order of Saint-Louis on 22 February 1748. Duhaget was assigned recruiting duties at Brest and Toulon in preparation for the French return to Isle Royale. In 1749 he returned to the colony as the officer commanding at Port Toulouse.
June 1750 - Mutiny at Port Toulouse in the course of which Duhaget was injured. He returned to France to recuperate.
1751-52 - Back to Louisbourg in 1751; in 1752 the governor, Jean-Louis de Raymond, recommended that he be retired.
July 1753 - Promoted to major de la place.
1757 - Returned to France in declining health and died on 19 December.
ca. 1695 - Born at Saint-Médard de Verteuil, bishopric of Poitiers, a son of François Benoist and Marie-Anne Tibierge.
1720s - Married Anne Levron sometime before coming to Louisbourg or at Louisbourg before the fall of 1722, after which time there are extant parish records.
May 1723 - Appointed enseigne en second at Isle Royale on 1 May.
May 1730 - Promoted to enseigne en pied on 8 May.
January 1733 - First wife died.
January 1734 - Married Anne Jacau, daughter of Thomas Jacau, maitre cannonier and Anne Melanson on 10 January.
April 1738 - Named lieutenant on 1 April.
1742-45 - Served as the officer commanding the detachment at Port Toulouse. Hence was not in Louisbourg in 1744. In 1745 Port Toulouse was attacked by a small force of New Englanders and Benoist and his men retreated to the interior. Towards the end of the siege they arrived at Louisbourg.
1749 - Returned to Louisbourg, apparently without his wife, who by 1752 is referred to as the "late" Anne Jacau.
April 1750 - Promoted to capitaine of his own company. 1758 - Presumably served in the second siege. Then returned to France. February 1760 - Admitted as a chevalier in the order of Saint-Louis. August 1763 - Died at Rochefort on 3 August.
This position was not likely vacant but the individual occupying that rank in the Duhaget company was either serving outside of Louisbourg in 1745, and hence was not mentioned in siege accounts, or was serving in some other capacity, such as garçon-major.
This officer is referred to in a siege account simply as "Ch. du Chambon." See the explanatory note in endnote 105 for the reasoning behind identifying him as Jean-Baptiste Ange du Pont du Chambon. The dates and places of both his birth and death are not known. He was one of several sons of Louis du Pont du Chambon, lieutenant de roi in 1744 and 1745, and Jeanne Mius d'Entremont. In addition to his father he had three brothers and three cousins in the garrison in 1744.
April 1741 - Appointed enseigne en second on 1 April.
1745 - Served in the siege with Duhaget's company at the Bastion de la Reine and from there along the curtain wall to the Porte de la Reine. Deported to France following the capitulation of the fortress.
January 1747 - Named enseigne en pied on 1 January.
1749 - Probably returned to Isle Royale.
April 1750 - Promoted to lieutenant on 15 April.
1755 - Referred to as a capitaine of his own company in a May 1755 entry in the parish records.
June 1757 - Married Marie-Anne Roma, daughter of Jean-Pierre Roma and Marie Magdelaine Moreaux, on 29 June.
1750 - Presumably served in the second siege and then was deported to France.
(viii) Compagnie de Rousseau de Villejouin
1709 - Born at Plaisance, son of Gabriel Rousseau de Villejouin (officer in the compagnies franches) and Marie-Josephte Bertrand.
May 1723 - Appointed enseigne en second on 1 May.
March-May 1730 - Named enseigne en pied on 15 or 25 March, then lieutenant on 8 May.
January 1733 - Married on 11 January, Anne de Gannes de Falaise, daughter of Louis François de Gannes de Falaise and Marguerite Le Neuf de la Vallière.
1737-38 - Detached to Port Toulouse where he was the officer commanding.
April 1739 - Made aide-major at Louisbourg with rank of capitaine.
April 1741 - Took command of a company at the Royal Battery .
1743-45 - In command of Royal Battery during 1743; he and his company were stationed at the King's Bastion throughout the siege of 1745. Following the capitulation of the fortress he was deported to France.
1747-48 - Captured by the English in 1747 in a naval combat and detained in England. After his return to France he was admitted as a chevalier of the order of Saint-Louis on 22 February 1748. Assigned recruiting duties in France.
1749 - Went out again to Isle Royale.
1751-52 - Commanded detachment at Port Toulouse. Villejouin's first wife died in November 1751.
1753 - Back in Louisbourg to act as the interim major de la place. On 3 December 1753 he married Barbe Le Neuf de la Vallière, widow of Louis de Lort.
1754-58 - Named in April 1754 as major of Isle Saint-Jean. Commanded there until forced by the English to evacuate in 1758.
1760 - At Rochefort acted as major of the troops from Isle Royale.
1761 - Ordered to command, at Rochefort, troops of Isle Royale, Canada, and Martinique as well as la compagnie des cadets gentils hommes.
1763 - Promoted to lieutenant colonel d'infanterie; then made governor of La Désirade. Three of his sons served under him at that posting.
1768 - Returned to France and retired with a pension of 4,000 livres and the rank of brigadier des armées du roi.
November 1781 - Died on 6 November at St. Jean D'Engely.
This officer was the only son of Charles de Saint-Etienne de la Tour, a former officer in the companies franches, and Angélique Loreau. De la Tour fils was born either in Acadia or on Isle Royale shortly after his father was posted there in 1714. Very little is known about his military career or personal life. After his father died in 1731 he appears to have continued to live with his mother in Louisbourg. (See section on this officer in the chapter on accommodations for more details).
1731 - Described as being about 17 years old and an enseigne en second.
1734 - Identified in the census of that year simply as being over 15 and in military service.
October 1738 - Listed as enseigne en pied.
June 1742 - Promoted to lieutenant.
1745 - Served in the siege with the rest of Rousseau de Villejouin's company at the King's Bastion. Presumably deported to France after the capitulation of the fortress.
Nothing is known about this officer after 1745 concerning either his subsequent military career or personal life.
This officer's career is summarized above in the section on the company of Chassin de Thierry, as in April 1744 he became lieutenant of that company.
The year and place of Dangeac's birth are not known. His brother Gabriel François was born in Plaisance in 1709 and Michel de Merville was born sometime later, perhaps after his parents had arrived in Isle Royale in 1714. Michel's father was Gabriel François Dangeac, who was a capitaine of one of the compagnies franches when he died in 1737, and his mother was Marguerite Bertrand.
1734 - In the 1734 census of Louisbourg it was indicated that there were two Dangeac sons (Gabriel and Michel) over 15 who were in military service. Gabriel was by that date a lieutenant so Michel de Merville must have been a cadet.
April 1738 - Named enseigne en second in the company of Michel de Gannes.
1738-42 - Served on Isle Saint-Jean.
April 1744 - Following the recommendation of Governor Duquesnel, Michel de Merville was promoted to enseigne en pied in Villejouin's company.
1745-48 - During the 1745 siege he served with the rest of Villejouin's company at the King's Bastion which came under heavy cannon and mortar fire. Returned to France when the fortress capitulated. In February 1748 he was promoted to lieutenant.
1749 - Returned to Louisbourg; probably married Marie-Geneviève de Baulac while in France. A child was born to them in Louisbourg in August 1752.
April 1750 - Promoted captain of one of companies stationed in Louisbourg.
1758-59 - Probably served in second siege of Louisbourg and then died in France the following year.
The military career of Louis Loppinot de la Fresillière appears to have been unique in the history of the Louisbourg garrison as he is the only known individual who rose from being a sergent (a non-commissioned officer) to become a commissioned officer, an enseigne en second. He conceivably might have risen higher in the ranks but died in the 1745 siege.
ca. 1707 w Born in Acadia, probably at Port Royal, son of Jean-Chrysostome Loppinot, a French-born notary, clerk of the court and King's attorney at Port Royal, and Jeanne Doucet. December 1729 - The first of three illegitimate children Louis Loppinot would father was born. The mother of all three was a Louisbourg widow named Genevi6ve Saint-Germain.
February 1732 - Second illegitimate child born. In the document registering the birth, Loppinot is referred to as a "sergent dune compagnie" in the garrison.
Spring/Summer 1732 - Loppinot was in France recruiting soldiers for the garrison at Louisbourg. He acquitted himself so well that in the fall of 1732 Governor Saint-Ovide placed his name on the list of cadets, or prospective officers. The governor stated that he found him intelligent, filled with ambition and likely to make a good officer.
1735-37 - Louis Loppinot de la Fresillière referred to as a cadet in several documents.
April 1738 - The third and final illegitimate child for which Loppinot was partly responsible was born.
May 1738 - Loppinot married Josephe Seigneur, daughter of Jean Seigneur and Marie Corporon. They produced seven children in the seven years they were married; the first being born 12 days after the wedding and the seventh during the siege of 1745 in which Loppinot lost his life. Loppinot's widow returned to Louisbourg during the second period and married Jean Claparède, a master locksmith, blacksmith and merchant.
1742 - Appointed enseigne en second.
June 1745 - Louis Loppinot de la Fresillière suffered a thigh injury from a cannon shot during the siege and died from the wound 24 hours later. Throughout the siege he had served at the King's Bastion along with the other officers and men of Gabriel Rousseau de Villejouin's company.