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The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715-1747: A Sojourner in the French Atlantic

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The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715-1747: A Sojourner in the French Atlantic - Sayre, Gordon M. (Translated by)
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In 1719, Jean-Francois-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny, son of a Paris lawyer, set sail for Louisiana with a commission as a lieutenant after a year in Quebec. During his peregrinations over the next eighteen years, Dumont came to challenge corrupt officials, found himself in jail, eked out a living as a colonial subsistence farmer, survived life-threatening storms and epidemics, encountered pirates, witnessed the 1719 battle for Pensacola, described the 1729 Natchez Uprising, and gave account of the 1739-1740 French expedition ...

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The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715-1747: A Sojourner in the French Atlantic 2012, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9780807837221

Hardcover