LIÉNARD DE BEAUJEU, DANIEL-HYACINTHE-MARIE

 

Killed leading the attack at Monongahela. He said to his nativc allies aftter daubing himself in warpaint

« Je suis déterminé à aller au devant des ennemis. Quoi ! laisserez-vous aller votre père seul ? Je suis sûr de les vaincre. »“I am determined to go ahead and meet the enemy. What! Will you let your father go by himself? I am sure to beat them.” Biography of this Canadian hero here.
Contrecouer wrote “The enemy’s artillery caused our people to fall back twice, M. De Beaujeu was killed by the third discharge . . . just as our French and Indians were beginning to hold their own. This accident instead of discouraging our men only reanimated them. . . .”

It is 40 years since I started reenacting. This pic is the late 90s when I used to run a society reenacting the French and Indian war. I am on the right.
 

La Corne St. Luc : the "General of the Indians" by Lighthall, W. D. (William Douw), 1857-1954

 I thought we could have this again. Interesting man. Wiki

Where are your Pants? Getting Dressed with a French Canadian Voyageur

 We've seen how merchants and British Grenadiers got dressed in the 1770s, but what about some of the most colorful visitors to Michilimackinac? Join our Curator of History Craig Wilson as he walks us through the how and why a French Canadian voyageur dressed the way they did.

Expédition d'hiver 2025 Garnison de Québec

 Facebook page where there is more

Snowshoeing in winter in Québec! A great weekend shared with our friend from the Détachement de la Colonie.

Blog post on the latest book on Compagnies franches de la Marine

 

Here

Garnison de Québec. Compagnies franches de la Marine

www.lagarnisondequebec.com

Frontier Soldiers of New France

 

New title added to the Autumn 2024 list!

Frontier Soldiers of New France examines the official and regulation dress, weapons and equipment of the regular colonial troops maintained by the French government in North America from 1683 to 1760, including unpublished information with a focus on new illustrations, line drawings, and photos of rare portraits and surviving artefacts from public and private collections.

This volume is the first of a series of three that will present all the regular forces that served in New France from 1683, when the first permanent garrisons of royal troops arrived, to September 1760. Many North American military campaigns of that era have been, and continue to be, covered in countless history books. The purpose of this work is, however, to be the first to present in detail the organisation and especially the material culture of all military participants, be they generals or private soldiers. There have been some sections of books, usually brief, and articles devoted to organisation, armament, dress, and equipment previously published. The aim of this work is to present a complete record of these aspects.

Register your interest here:

https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/frontier-soldiers-of-new-france-volume-1-regulation-clothing-armament-and-equipment-of-the-colonial-troops-in-new-france-1683-1760.php

Agent of Empire: "The Life and Times of Daniel Hyacinthe Marie Lienard de Beaujeu"

 A webinar hosted by Old Fort Niagara on YouTube

Journal des campagnes du chevalier de Lévis en Canada, de 1756 à 1760 by Lévis, François Gaston, duc de, 1720-1787;

Here  https://archive.org/details/journaldescampag00lv/page/n6/mode/2up
for a free download.

Duc de LÉVIS - Victor of Sante-Foy

http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/levis_francois_de_4E.html

Bonin pdf

https://manuscritdepot.com/livres-gratuits/pdf-livres/n.joseph-charles-bonin.02.pdf

Raiders from New France first impressions

My copy has just arrived. Very good. It's a book that has needed to be written and those involved have done well in putting it into print. The colour illustrations by Adam Hook are skilful

Couriers de good 1730s

with a debt (acknowledged) to the late Francis Back whose research has paved the way.  Plenty of good stuff on New France's military strategies, arms and clothing. Recommended.

Announcement on forthcoming works of interest

Kévin Gélinas

1 hr

After nearly eight years in the making, it gives me great pleasure to announce that Michel Pétard, René Chartrand and myself have recently signed a publication contract with Historical Enterprise, LLC for the publication of a full-color three-volume book set dealing with the material culture of the French troops in Canada (1683-1760). This ground-breaking study will provide a close look at the objects, clothing and equipment used by the French soldiers of the colonial and regular troops serving in North America and will include a large amount of unpublished information on the very subject (i.e., primary source documentation taken from archival material and notarial records) with a focus on new illustrations and line drawings by Francis Back and Michel Pétard, as well as photos of rare portraits and surviving artifacts from public and private collections throughout the world. A chapter on tattoos and military hairstyles written by the late Francis Back will be included as well.

Volume 1 - Regulation clothing, armament, and equipment of the colonial troops in Canada (1683-1760)

Volume 2 - Campaign clothing, armament, and equipment of the colonial troops in Canada (1683-1760)

Volume 3 - Regulation clothing, armament, and equipment of the French metropolitan troops in Canada (1755-1760)

No official publication date has been set at this point, but we are hopeful that volume 1 it goes into print late 2020 or early 2021.

Raiders from New France teaser

Osprey have released an image from the forthcoming book by Rene Chartrand and Adam Hook.
The illustration depicts a clash between Abenaki warriors and Dragoons in 1707. As the Dragoon riders came up, other hidden warriors opened fire on them from the edge of the trees in what was obviously a deliberately planned ambush. During the five‑hour running fight that followed, the Albany militiamen never succeeded in catching up with the elusive warriors, who eventually vanished – taking some scalps with them, and seemingly suffering no casualties themselves.

Raiders from New France Osprey

Raiders from New France

North American Forest Warfare Tactics, 17th–18th Centuries

Elite 229

• Author: René Chartrand
• Illustrator: Adam Hook

Though the French and British colonies in North America began on a 'level playing field', French political conservatism and limited investment allowed the British colonies to forge ahead, pushing into territories that the French had explored deeply but failed to exploit. The subsequent survival of 'New France' can largely be attributed to an intelligent doctrine of raiding warfare developed by imaginative French officers through close contact with Indian tribes and Canadian settlers. The ground-breaking new research explored in this study indicates that, far from the ad hoc opportunism these raids seemed to represent, they were in fact the result of a deliberate plan to overcome numerical weakness by exploiting the potential of mixed parties of French soldiers, Canadian backwoodsmen and allied Indian warriors.
Supported by contemporary accounts from period documents and newly explored historical records, this study explores the 'hit-and-run' raids which kept New Englanders tied to a defensive position and ensured the continued existence of the French colonies until their eventual cession in 1763.

Looking forward to this

Raiders from New France: North American Forest Warfare Tactics, 17th–18th Centuries (Elite) Paperback – 28 Nov 2019

by René Chartrand (Author), Adam Hook (Illustrator)

L'épée et la plume : Amérindiens et soldats des troupes de la marine en Louisiane et au Pays d'en Haut (1683-1763) (French)

I haven't read this but it looks interesting.

Lorsque le roi de France habillait ses soldats a la Canadienne by Bruno Helias author and artist. Tradition magazine no 144 1999

D'Iberville

De 1682 à 1704, la Nouvelle-France est un territoire fort convoité, et politiquement encore fragile. Un homme, Pierre LeMoyne d'Iberville bataille dur contre les Anglais de Boston et les Hollandais de Manhattan . Ses expéditions le mènent là où il faut lutter contre la prédominance de la Compagnie du Nord, à la Baie d'Hudson. C'est un pays grand comme un continent qu'il doit conquérir avec quelques centaines d'hommes. La série D'Iberville raconte ses aventures.

Résumé :  Une méprise

Une Méprise.
D'Iberville accompagne Charles LeMoyne et son oncle LeBer à Québec. LeMoyne et LeBer doivent y rencontrer de La Barre, nouveau gouverneur de la Nouvelle-France. Perrot, gouverneur de Montréal, voulant manœuvrer de La Barre selon son bon vouloir, cherche à retarder le voyage de LeMoyne. Il demande à Haaskouan, chef Iroquois, de capturer les trois voyageurs. Ce plan échoue car les Iroquois font une erreur d'identité et arrêtent Perrot au lieu de LeMoyne ! Furieux de cette méprise, Perrot se voit finalement délivré par un de ses compagnons.

Diffusion: le mercredi 18 octobre 1967