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Louis-Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil (18 April 1724 – 14 December 1802) [1] was second in command of the French squadron off America during the American Revolutionary War . Biography. Early life. Coat of arms of Louis-Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial.
Louis-Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil joined the service on 8 May 1695 when still a child, with an expectancy of an ensigncy in the colonial regular troops in Canada. On 20 May 1698 he received a commission as ensign on the active list and midshipman. He was promoted lieutenant on 15 June 1705.
Louis-Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis of Vaudreuil (22 September 1691 – 27 November 1763) was a French naval officer. [1] Bibliography. Vaudreuil served in Canada where his father, Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil, was governor from 1703 to 1725, and came back to France only after the death of his father in 1725.
Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil (French pronunciation: [filip də ʁigo maʁki də vodʁœj]; c. 1643 – 10 October 1725) was a French military officer who served as Governor General of New France (now Canada and U.S. states of the Mississippi Valley) from 1703 to 1725, throughout Queen Anne's War and Father Rale's War.
RIGAUD DE VAUDREUIL, PHILIPPE DE, Marquis de Vaudreuil, musketeer, commander of the troops, naval captain, governor of Montreal, governor general of New France, governor of Revel in Languedoc; knight, commander, and grand cross of the order of Saint-Louis; baptized 13 Aug. 1650 at Dreuilhe, France; m. 21 Nov. 1690 Louise-Elizabeth de Joybert at ...
Jan 14, 2008 · Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil, Marquis de Vaudreuil, governor general of New France 1703-25 (b probably near Revel, France c 1643; d at Québec C 10 Oct 1725). Vaudreuil served in the French army with the Mousquetaires from 1672 and distinguished himself in campaigns in Flanders.
LOUIS PHILIPPE DE RIGAUD, COMTE DE VAUDREUIL, eldest son of preceding, b. at Quebec, 1723; d. in France, 1802; entered the navy in 1741. When the American revolutionary war began he refused the governorship of San Domingo to remain at sea.
