Daniel Liénard de Beaujeu

Daniel Hyacinthe Liénard de Beaujeu.

Daniel-Hyacinthe-Marie Liénard de Beaujeu (born August 19, 1711 in Ville-Marie (now Montréal ), New France ; † July 9, 1755 in Fort Duquesne ) was a Canadian officer in the French army .

Career as an officer

After joining the French army, probably still in his youth, he was sent to Nova Scotia as one of the commanders of a force of 700 men in order to organize with a force from France for the conquest of the fortress Louisbourg .

Beaujeu fought in the Battle of Grand Pré , which was won on February 11, 1747 after two days of fighting by the French armed forces.

On July 5, 1749, he became commandant at Fort Niagara . There he wrote several letters that were published in 1931 in the Bulletin des recherches historiques .

In 1755 he replaced Claude-Pierre Pécaudy as the commanding officer in the newly built Fort Duquesne .

He was in command of the Battle of Monongahela on July 9, 1755, when he was killed in action. The French won the battle and Beaujeu was known for many years as the "hero of the Monongahela". Only later did it become apparent that the battle was essentially won by his successor in command, Jean-Daniel Dumas .

Beaujeu's body was brought back to Fort Duquesne, where he was buried on July 12, 1755.

Private life

In 1737 he married Michelle-Elisabeth Foucault in Québec . Together they had nine children, of which only two daughters survived childhood.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} LIÉNARD DE BEAUJEU, DANIEL-HYACINTHE-MARIE. Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, 2000, accessed December 31, 2012 . 
2. ^ ^{A b} Daniel Hyacinthe Liénard de Beaujeu. The Quebec History Encyclopedia, accessed December 31, 2012 . 

literature

• W. Stewart Wallace: The Encyclopedia of Canada. Volume 1. University Associates of Canada, Toronto 1948, p. 197.

Web links

• Biography entry in Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online .