Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy

Marquis Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy (c. 1596 or 1603 – 1670) was a French aristocrat, statesman, and military leader.

After driving out the Dutch from the West Indies in 1664, the Marquis de Tracy was appointed lieutenant-général of New France. The governor was not present, so de Tracy acted as the governor in the Sovereign Council.

From his base in Quebec City, he initiated a brutal war against the Iroquois peoples and after defeating them and destroying their crops and villages, he launched an attack against the Mohawk nation and causing destruction to their territory. Marquis Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy seized all the Mohawk lands in the name of the king of France, and forced the Mohawks to accept the Roman Cathoilic faith and to adopt the French language as taught by the Jesuit missionaries.

Marquis Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy died in Paris in the parish of Saint-Eustache in 1670.

External links

• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online