Louis de La Porte de Louvigné

Louis de La Porte de Louvigné,[1] son of Jean de La Porte[2] and of his mother Françoise Faverolles (alt Faucrolle or Foucrelle),[3] died in 1725, sieur de Louvigné, lieutenant in France and of Canada, captain of marine troops, commander of various western forts, enseigne de vaisseau, governor of Trois-Rivières[4] and of Québec, knight of the chevalier de Saint-Louis, commander-in-chief of the pays d’en haut, born 1662 near Paris, (Mans), died (lost at sea[5]) 27 August 1725.

Biography

He was a member of a wealthy and notable family in Laval : the Famille de La Porte.

Major in the service of the King in Québec, 1690, captain of a detachment of His Majesty's in Canada, 1695.

In 1689, New France's governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac returned to Canada and sent Louvigny to Michilimackinac with 170 men, with orders to reinforce that post and to relieve the commandant, Morel de La Durantaye. In 1690, he and Nicolas Perrot led a vital supply convoy from Montreal to Michilimackinac. Their success in breaking the Iroquois blockade of the Ottawa River and in resupplying the western Indians loyal to the French may have saved New France from the Five Nations. Louvigné remained as commandant of at Fort de Buade / Michilimackinac until 1694.[6]

Sieur de Louvigné, he was named in 1699 as commandant of Fort Frontenac (on the shore of Lake Ontario) and arrested for practicing during the winter of that same year for fur trading, prohibited by the edict of 1696.

In 1716, Louis de La Porte de Louvigné commanded French troops to victory against the Native Americans of a camp of Fox Indians near the site of existing mound building. The French then nicknamed the place "Hill of the Dead" (see also: Butte des Morts, Wisconsin)"

He died in 1725.

Notes and References

  1. ↑ Et non de Louvigny.
  2. ↑ sieur de Villoiseau (Bonchamp-lès-Laval), receveur des finances à Tours, counsellor and officer of the king.
  3. ↑ http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/la_porte_de_louvigny_louis_de_2E.html Volume II (1701-1740) Dictionary of Canadian Biography
  4. ↑ http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/la_porte_de_louvigny_louis_de_2E.html Volume II (1701-1740) Dictionary of Canadian Biography
  5. ↑ http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/la_porte_de_louvigny_louis_de_2E.html Volume II (1701-1740) Dictionary of Canadian Biography
  6. ↑ http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/la_porte_de_louvigny_louis_de_2E.html Volume II (1701-1740) Dictionary of Canadian Biography

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