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Pierre Dugua de Mons (or Du Gua de Monts; c. 1558 – 1628) was a
French merchant,
explorer and colonizer. A Calvinist, he was born in the Château de Mons...
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Charles François
Joseph Dugua (1740, in
Toulouse or, 1774, in
Valenciennes – 16
October 1802 in Crête-à-Pierrot), was a
general of the
French Revolution...
- led by
Pierre Dugua de Mons, a
noble and
Protestant merchant who had been
given a fur
trading monopoly in New
France by the king.
Dugua asked Champlain...
- area was by the
French in 1604 on
Saint Croix Island,
founded by
Pierre Dugua,
Sieur de Mons. The
first English settlement was the short-lived Popham...
- The Kanem–Bornu
Empire existed in
areas which are now part of Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon,
Libya and Chad. It was
known to the
Arabian geographers as the...
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island was the site of an
early attempt at
French colonization by
Pierre Dugua,
Sieur de Mons in 1604. In 1984 it was
designated by the
United States Congress...
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Charles Antoine Desaix, Jean-Louis-Ébénézer Reynier, Charles-François-Joseph
Dugua, Honoré Vial and
Louis André Bon. In addition,
Desaix sent a
small detachment...
- also gave
Dugua a
monopoly in the fur
trade for
those territories and
named him
Lieutenant General for
Acadia and New France. In return,
Dugua promised...
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possession of
lands he
calls (Newfoundland) and
Acadie (Acadia). 1604 -
Pierre Dugua,
Sieur de
Monts and
Samuel de
Champlain establish an ill-fated settlement...
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colonization failed when
Dugua lost his
monopoly in 1607,
although the site was
eventually reoccupied by
other colonists. In
early 1608
Dugua was
granted a one-year...
