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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 (1740/1774 – 16
October 1802) was a
French Army
officer who
served in the
French Revolutionary Wars.
Dugua was in
charge of Napoleon's...
- 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...
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University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-2874-1. Grenon, Jean-Yves (2000).
Pierre Dugua De Mons:
Founder of
Acadie (1604–5), Co-Founder of
Quebec (1608). Translated...
- 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...
- Galland. The
prints that
resulted were
taken to
Paris by
General Charles Dugua.
Scholars in
Europe were now able to see the
inscriptions and
attempt to...
- 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...
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vision extended beyond France, and he
financed several expeditions of
Pierre Dugua,
Sieur de
Monts and
Samuel de
Champlain to
North America.
France laid claim...
- Marc Lescarbot, Jean de
Biencourt de
Poutrincourt et de Saint-Just,
Pierre Dugua,
Sieur de Monts, and
Kateri Tekakwitha, a
Catholic Mohawk religious woman...
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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...
