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Awards. Order of Saint Louis. Signature. Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville [a] (16 July 1661 – 9 July 1706) [1] [2] or Sieur d'Iberville [a] was a French soldier, explorer, colonial administrator, and trader. He is noted for founding the colony of Louisiana in New France. He was born in Montreal to French colonist parents.
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Jul 20, 1998 · Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville (baptized July 20, 1661, Ville-Marie [now Montreal, Can.]—died July 9, 1706, Havana, Cuba) was a French-Canadian naval hero and explorer, noted for his exploration and battles on behalf of the French in Hudson Bay and in the territory of Louisiana. The son of prominent Montreal fur trader Charles Le Moyne ...
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LE MOYNE D’IBERVILLE (from a fief held by his father’s family, near Dieppe, in the province of Normandy) ET D’ARDILLIÈRES (from a property he acquired in the province of Aunis near Rochefort), PIERRE, soldier, ship’s captain, explorer, colonizer, knight of the order of Saint-Louis, adventurer, privateer and trader, the most renowned son of New France; baptized 20 July 1661 at ...
- Bernard Pothier
- LE MOYNE D’IBERVILLE ET D’ARDILLIÈRES, PIERRE
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 2
Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d’Iberville, founded the French colony of Louisiana and the first European settlement in what is now Mississippi at Biloxi in 1699. The third son of noted New France emigrant Charles Le Moyne de Longueuil et de Châteauguay, Iberville was born in Montreal, in the French colony of Canada, in 1661. From […]
Summarize this article for a 10 year old. Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (16 July 1661 – 9 July 1706) or Sieur d'Iberville was a French soldier, explorer, colonial administrator, and trader. He is noted for founding the colony of Louisiana in New France. He was born in Montreal to French colonist parents.
Pierre Le Moyne d' Iberville. 1661-1706. French-Canadian naval captain and discoverer who led explorations of the southeastern United States. Born to a wealthy fur trader in Montreal, Quebec, Iberville spent a good deal of his youth at sea on his father's ship. As an adult, he joined French expeditions that captured English-held Hudson's Bay ...
views 1,432,556 updated. Pierre le Moyne Iberville, sieur d' (pyĕr lə mwän syör dēbĕrvēl´), 1661–1706, French Canadian naval officer, founder of the French territory of Louisiana, b. Ville Marie (in present Montreal), Canada; son of Charles le Moyne, sieur de Longueuil, and brother of Jean Baptiste le Moyne, sieur de Bienville.
